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| From | General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.networking |
| Subject | Re: Recommended bandwidth measureing tool for 10G |
| Date | 2011-07-27 15:36 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <99apj1Fqi1U3@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <9991frFqi1U1@mid.individual.net> <slrnj2vi3u.gtj.grahn+nntp@frailea.sa.invalid> <99ad2nFqi1U2@mid.individual.net> <slrnj30ao0.gtj.grahn+nntp@frailea.sa.invalid> |
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:13:05 +0000, Jorgen Grahn wrote: > On Wed, 2011-07-27, General Schvantzkoph wrote: >> 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. > > Isn't netperf a traffic generator? If you just want to see what's > happening in terms of bits/s, you can use e.g. ifstat(1), or even use > ifconfig and calculate the average yourself. > > /Jorgen ifconfig just tells you the configuration it doesn't do any measurements. ifstat gives you stats but it doesn't generate traffic which is necessary for measuring the actual bandwidth of the interfaces.
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Recommended bandwidth measureing tool for 10G General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-07-26 23:38 +0000
Re: Recommended bandwidth measureing tool for 10G Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-07-27 08:12 +0000
Re: Recommended bandwidth measureing tool for 10G General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-07-27 12:02 +0000
Re: Recommended bandwidth measureing tool for 10G Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-07-27 15:13 +0000
Re: Recommended bandwidth measureing tool for 10G General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-07-27 15:36 +0000
Re: Recommended bandwidth measureing tool for 10G Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-07-27 20:42 +0000
Re: Recommended bandwidth measureing tool for 10G Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> - 2011-07-27 16:33 +0000
Re: Recommended bandwidth measureing tool for 10G General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-07-27 23:31 +0000
Re: Recommended bandwidth measureing tool for 10G Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> - 2011-07-27 23:01 +0000
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