Network performance utility query!

[Blake Hudson]

-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Re: Network performance utility query!
From: Dan Track <dan.track at gmail.com>
To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora.
<fedora-list at redhat.com>
Date: Monday, October 20, 2008 6:19:48 AM
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Max Pyziur <pyz at brama.com> wrote:
>   
>> IPTraf?
>>
>>     
>>> From the Description:
>>>       
>> IPTraf is a console-based network monitoring utility.  IPTraf gathers
>> data like TCP connection packet and byte counts, interface statistics
>> and activity indicators, TCP/UDP traffic breakdowns, and LAN station
>> packet and byte counts.  IPTraf features include an IP traffic monitor
>> which shows TCP flag information, packet and byte counts, ICMP
>> details, OSPF packet types, and oversized IP packet warnings;
>> interface statistics showing IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, non-IP and other IP
>> packet counts, IP checksum errors, interface activity and packet size
>> counts; a TCP and UDP service monitor showing counts of incoming and
>> outgoing packets for common TCP and UDP application ports, a LAN
>> statistics module that discovers active hosts and displays statistics
>> about their activity; TCP, UDP and other protocol display filters so
>> you can view just the traffic you want; logging; support for Ethernet,
>> FDDI, ISDN, SLIP, PPP, and loopback interfaces; and utilization of the
>> built-in raw socket interface of the Linux kernel, so it can be used
>> on a wide variety of supported network cards.
>>
>>
>> fyi,
>>
>> MP
>> pyz at brama.com
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Dan Track wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of a program that I can use to test network
>>> performance. I've got to devices one linux and the other windows, I'd
>>> like to see if the linux device is getting nearly the max 100Mbit of
>>> performance when sending data to the windows box. Any thoughts?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Dan
>>>
>>>       
>
> Thanks,
>
> But that's only for monitoring isn't it? I need something that would
> generate the traffic aswell. Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks
> Dan
>
>   
I believe netperf (http://netperf.org) has both a linux and a win32
variant. Netperf is run as a receiver/server on one PC and then ran as a
client/sender on the other to benchmark network performance. Reverse the
roles to get performance stats in the other direction.

--Blake
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