[ILUG] tcpblast anyone?

[Paul Reilly]

Anyone using tcpblast to measure bandwidth?

I have it running on both a FreeBSD box and RH 6.2 box but it's producing
different sets of results on each platform. The linux port is
overestimating the bandwidth by about a factor of 2 and sometimes reports
a bandwidth greater than the link is capable of! I'm using a large number
of blocks (500) so the error should be fairly low, around 0 to 5%.

I need this to work on a linux server, and at the moment I don't trust the
figures it's reporting. Is anyone else using tcpblast on linux or can you
recommend a good bandwidth measuring tool for linux?

Source code for tcpblast can be found at...

ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/benchmarks/tcpblast/src

...for the FreeBSd version, and at tucows for the linux version....

linuxberg.concepts.nl/conhtml/adm_monitoring.html

Thanks

Paul

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