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Subject: Re: Throughput rate testing configurations
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George V. Neville-Neil wrote:
> At Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:51:27 -0700,
> security wrote:

>> Iperf or netperf are probably what you're looking for.  

> I personally prefer netpipe because it tries odd sized (non power of
> 2) messages and tends to help edge cases come to light.
> 
> /usr/ports/benchmarks/netpipe

Thank you for the recommendations. I will try out all three of them.

I'm certain I'll get the results I am after.

Cheers,

Steve