yep it has to be processed, process switched and stored somewhere. All things that don't happen with traffic that traverses the router. I wouldn't consider this accurate unless you were using it to test the throughput on a router upstream from the one you are using to download a file.
2011/5/30 Scott Granados <[email protected]> > You can do that but i find many times copy functions to and from the router > itself are several orders slower than traffic actually traversing the > device. > > On May 30, 2011, at 7:42 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Copy xxx://yyy null: > > > >> > >> Hi all > >> > >> can i from a Cisco router simulate a download session? > >> as i am on a laptop and downloading a file to see the transfer speed? > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> Best Regards, > >> Mohammad Khalil > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > >> archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
