How to verify speed of a 1Gb/s network?

[Eugen Leitl]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 11:40:30PM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote:

> 1 billion bits per second is 1*10^9 bits, contrast with 2^30 bits which bc 
> says is 1073741824
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit

As opposed to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibit

As to measuring throughput, http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/netpipe/
is your friend.

You might also look into jumbo frames, if your switch fabric
supports it. See also http://dcs.nac.uci.edu/~strombrg/jumbo.html

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