[lug] NIC Speed

[Timothy C. Klein]

* Nate Duehr (nate at natetech.com) wrote:
> 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.

Hey, this is a really cool tool.  Thanks.

Tim
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