On Friday January 9 at 08:52am Paul E Condon <pecondon@peakpeak.com> wrote: > I have a small LAN in my home. I need some advice on tuning it. > > I've started working on a project wherein I move large files (>3GB) > between two Debian boxes. This is a slow process. I would like to be > sure that it goes as fast as is reasonable. I think all my LAN cards > are claimed by their makers to be 10/100, but for some this might be > marketing hype. All my cables are 'CAT5'. So, some questions: > > How do I determine whether my lan is passing data at 10 or 100 MHz? It is not measured in megahertz, but rather megabits (not megabytes, which is a little misleading) > If I find it is 10MHz, what can I do to find which hardware needs > upgrading to make it work at 100MHz? > > Are there software diagnostic tools that would help me with this? > Package names? If you are running a recent version (testing/unstable) of ssh, you can try 'scp file.here otherhost:file.there' and it will tell you how fast it is transferring. About 1-1.5 megabytes per second is good for a 100 megabit link. If it is substantialy less, its probabyl running at 10 megabits. -- -johann koenig Now Playing: Today is Pungenday, the 8th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3170 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/johannkoenig.pgp
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