| gabriel rosenkoetter on Mon, 11 Feb 2002 10:13:19 -0500 |
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On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 03:05:53PM -0500, Vince Bernardo wrote: > Of course, this is ultimately meaningless unless you can somehow monitor > real network performance -- I don't see how us users can do that. > [Suggestions welcome.] Got a machine on a connection elsewhere? Decide you don't need your cable modem for a day (maybe you're out of town), and dump your /dev/zero down an ssh socket forward to the remote machine that's dumping the output of the socket into /dev/null on its end. (Yes, you should be able to dd into and out of a socket. If not, then Linux's dd implementation needs fixing.) Use ethereal on the comcast end to measure bandwidth. Note that it'll vary over the course of the day. If my previous second-hand experience still holds, bandwidth will suck between 8am and 8pm and rock during the other twelve hours. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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