Re: network performance

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

"Alexander Gun" <Alexander.Gun@web.de> wrote:
>how can i test my network performance
>without copying one file from maschine a to maschine b ?
>
>i dont want to test my harddrive speed!!

Set up a web server on one machine and download several large files
simultaneously from it on the other. After each file is sent for the
first time, it should be cached in memory, by which point any
half-decent web server should be able to saturate 100Mbit Ethernet and
more with ease.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]