Re: [ILUG] tcpblast anyone?

From: Paul Jakma (paulj at domain itg.ie)
Date: Tue 16 May 2000 - 14:43:13 IST


On Tue, 16 May 2000, Paul Reilly wrote:

> Well I could use ftp but it would be better if I could use something
> which doesn't require logging in as the script will be running very
> frequently.

ah right ted...

> tcpblast sends a specified number of 1024 byte blocks to the
> tcp or udp port 9 (--> /dev/null) and measures the bandwidth that way.
>

now if the sending OS was /really/ clever it could optimise that away and
avoid sending packets on the network. :)

> Paul
>

--paulj



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