Re: Testing cat-5 cables with Debian as opposed to cable tester?
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Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> 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.
>
If you do prepare such a script, could you post it to the list? I for
one would find it useful, but I am not good enough in scripting to make
one myself.
Regards, Ken Heard
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