Re: Testing cat-5 cables with Debian as opposed to cable tester?
> Not normally. Your standard NIC does not have sensors for measuring such
> things and doesn't expose that information to the OS.
>
That's what I figured. But I figured if the NIC could give raw access
to the line then maybe something could be done in software.
> You might be able to estimate the quality of a network cable by transferring
> random data across it from one Debian host to another and measuring the
> speed. (Or, probably better, the ratio of (packets dropped because of
> checksum failure) / (total packets sent)).
I could probably script that. It would be good for testing the router
as well. Thanks.
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