Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: General Schvantzkoph Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Re: Recommended bandwidth measureing tool for 10G Date: 27 Jul 2011 12:02:31 GMT Lines: 12 Message-ID: <99ad2nFqi1U2@mid.individual.net> References: <9991frFqi1U1@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net iz05m7hH2ablK8Qxph22jwxeDkfIMPX8FIDGAAu9W4YNluGimr Cancel-Lock: sha1:EDvQeEUbRIa8ehFZ6D/tJbNaWJw= User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.networking:434 On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:12:47 +0000, Jorgen Grahn wrote: > On Tue, 2011-07-26, General Schvantzkoph wrote: >> What's the best tool to measure the bandwidth between NIC cards. I need >> to measure the bandwidth between 10G NICs. > > What do you mean? That you have two NICs, and want to measure the mean > bits/s are going from A to B over a certain time period? > > /Jorgen Yes that's it exactly. I'm going to try netperf, that looks promising.