From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 11 11:24:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4BEF16A4DA for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:24:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bob.middaugh@comcast.net) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.192.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E45D43D45 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:24:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bob.middaugh@comcast.net) Received: from freebsd (c7147620.state.nj.us[199.20.118.32]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with SMTP id <20060811112409m1100kg31ae>; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:24:09 +0000 From: Bob To: jay alvarez In-Reply-To: <20060811080134.37712.qmail@web39811.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060811080134.37712.qmail@web39811.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 07:25:16 -0400 Message-Id: <1155295516.5741.0.camel@freebsd> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any idea how to stress test our bandwidth? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: bob.middaugh@comcast.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:24:10 -0000 Maybe this helps... http://www.netperf.org/netperf/NetperfPage.html Bob On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 01:01 -0700, jay alvarez wrote: > I hope you don't mind my asking this here. > > I'm working in an ISP right now. We are using mrtg for > each client connected to us. They can view their mrtg > statistics. Their way to the internet is to us. Say a > client connects to us via E1, they are guaranteed of > 2.048Mbps because our uplink to the Internet is more > than the total of all the clients link's bandwidth > that are connected to us. Now one client wants to make > sure that they will be able to reach their guaranteed > bandwidth through the mrtg graphs. If we transfer huge > data from their site only up to us, we can > theoretically stress out their bandwidth. However, > they want to try increasing their consumption and see > for their self if they will reach the desired > bandwidth if they are actually connecting to any site > in the Internet, outside our network. Running iperf > from their site to us doesn't seem to reflect to the > MRTG. Any idea how to explain this to our client? > > > Thank you very much for your help > -JaY > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"