From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 3 14:36:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from irv1-mail2.intelenet.net (irv1-mail2.intelenet.net [204.182.160.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F08E37B66C for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 14:36:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gidney.intelenet.net (gidney.intelenet.net [207.38.65.47]) by irv1-mail2.intelenet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA21196; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 14:36:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200010032136.OAA21196@irv1-mail2.intelenet.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jamie Norwood Subject: Re: High Performance NICs In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 03 Oct 2000 09:09:10 -0700. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 14:36:38 -0700 From: David Harnick-Shapiro Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -------- David Harnick-Shapiro FirstWorld Communications Irvine CA 92612 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message