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Date:      Tue, 03 Oct 2000 14:36:38 -0700
From:      David Harnick-Shapiro <davidhs@intelenet.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Jamie Norwood <mistwolf@mushhaven.net>
Subject:   Re: High Performance NICs 
Message-ID:  <200010032136.OAA21196@irv1-mail2.intelenet.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 03 Oct 2000 09:09:10 -0700.

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Might 'ttcp' be what you want?  It's even in /usr/ports/net.

(That's BRL's "test TCP" ttcp, not Solaris's "ToolTalk CoPy" ttcp...)

On Tue, 3 Oct 2000 09:09, Jamie Norwood writes:

> On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 08:11:01AM -0500, LStation wrote:
>> 
>>> On this topic, can anyone recommend a way to force high loads like this, 
>>> to see how current/prospective hardware fares? Any advice appreciated!
>> 
>> Sure, just bring up INN (the worlds only voluntary DoS attack ;-). 
>> Copying huge files back and forth across an nfs mount should work too... 
> 
> Sadly, I would be limited by the internet connection on INN (Only on a 1.5
> Mb/s SDSL link). Might see if I can do the NFS thing.
> 
> I know suns have/had a set of commands which would essentiall push garbage
> data as fast and much as possible between two hosts. We used to use it at
> @Home to test particularly troublesome links when they were fixed. Something
> in FreeBSD like this would be nice.
> 
> Jamie

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David Harnick-Shapiro                          FirstWorld Communications
<david.harnick-shapiro@firstworld.com>                   Irvine CA 92612




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