Re: traffic to/from a workstation
[Nigel Barker]
> I was wondering about the amount of traffic to and from a workstation.
> We have a "temporary" building (ie. permanent but cheap) which is
> connected to the main building by a wireless link which sometimes drops
> packets, depending on the weather or whether we really need it to work
> well or not that day. Skolelinux workstations in that building are very
> slow compared to identical machines in the main building. This is
> because they are constantly shuffling data to tjener, right?
> Is there something I can do about it? eg. stop some services.
The iftop tools with the -P argument can be used to measure the amount
of traffic per protocol. A workstation uses mostly LDAP and NFS to
the main-server, which should not amount to very much in the normal
case.
Happy hacking,
--
Petter Reinholdtsen
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