From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 20 13:32:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ED5414A28 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 13:32:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from proot@iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by iaces.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA11110; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 15:31:33 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199910202031.PAA11110@iaces.com> Subject: Re: 100baseT through etherswitch ... To: scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 15:31:33 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "The Hermit Hacker" at Oct 20, 1999 04:36:52 PM X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm not sure of the answer, but a tool to show you throughput is only as far as ports (actually it may be in packages). Nettest, it's some old code from Cray, but it still works great. I ported it to FreeBSD (wasn't hard). I also ported it to NT (with GNU installed), that was a little harder. :-) Basically, you run the daemon on one machine (nettestd) and the client on the other (nettest remote-host). Cool stuff. In a previous message, The Hermit Hacker said: > > > Morning all... > > I have a computer connected to an etherswitch at work, > 100baseT...doing an FTP of a 300Meg file to another computer on the same > etherswitch, also doing 100baseT, how many MB/s should I expect to see > *max*? Oh, both hosts and the etherswitch are running half-duplex... > > Thanks... > > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy > Systems Administrator @ hub.org > primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- "But what ... is it good for?" --Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message