From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 21 07:37:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51A8A37B401; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 07:37:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from probsd.org (rrcs-midsouth-24-172-108-90.biz.rr.com [24.172.108.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D4DA43F75; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 07:37:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from xr@sh3lls.net) Received: from probsd.org (probsd.org [192.168.1.4]) by probsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 81AEB465AD; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:38:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 192.168.1.4 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ms) by probsd.org with HTTP; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:38:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3792.192.168.1.4.1058798290.squirrel@probsd.org> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:38:10 -0400 (EDT) From: "XR" To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: network performance testing X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:37:49 -0000 I'm considering purchasing hosting from a provider that says I will have a dedicated 10 Mbit connection with burst to 20 Mbit on a FreeBSD box I rebuilt to suit my needs.. The network is Multihomed with three other providers. However, I'm a skeptic. I went ahead and purchased for 1 month and now want to see if I am actually getting 10 Mbit uplink to the server. I'm looking at iperf to do this, but I also know taking ping/traceroute results from remote host to the server can calculate this, but I dont know the math. Would anyone using iperf guide me towards an example, or show me the math using ping/traceroute? Or, suggest running any other test? Thx XR