How to verify speed of a 1Gb/s network?
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Wed Apr 26 09:52:33 UTC 2006
On 4/25/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> For a brute force check, you could transfer a large number of bytes from
> a byte generator (/dev/zero?) to /dev/nul, and time it.
To transfer 1G
One one host run
nc -l -p 30000 > /dev/null
On the other host run
time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1024 | nc first-hostname 30000
Depending on your version of dd it may or may not display a
throughput, so you may have to calculate it yourself freom the time
displayed
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