-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Network performance utility query!
From: Dan Track <dan.track(a)gmail.com>
To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora.
<fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
Date: Monday, October 20, 2008 6:19:48 AM
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Max Pyziur <pyz(a)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(a)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