[lug] NIC Speed

[Nate Duehr]

On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 19:07, Timothy C. Klein wrote:

> Ha!  I just posted a message about NIC speeds to the CLUE-TECH list.  Go
> figure.  Netcat seems to be usefull, as well as using the Tx an Rx bytes
> numbers from ifconfig.  There is also a program called NetPerf, which I
> have installed, but haven't ran yet.  So far, it seems that I am getting
> only about 30% of the advertised 100 Mb/s between my machines and my
> wife.  I have long suspeced that it was slower than it should be.  I am
> investigating solutions.

For just seeing what's going on speed-wise on the pipe, iptraf seems to
work pretty well.

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Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com