-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Not normally. Your standard NIC does not have sensors for measuring such >> things and doesn't expose that information to the OS. >> > > That's what I figured. But I figured if the NIC could give raw access > to the line then maybe something could be done in software. > >> You might be able to estimate the quality of a network cable by transferring >> random data across it from one Debian host to another and measuring the >> speed. (Or, probably better, the ratio of (packets dropped because of >> checksum failure) / (total packets sent)). > > I could probably script that. It would be good for testing the router > as well. Thanks. > If you do prepare such a script, could you post it to the list? I for one would find it useful, but I am not good enough in scripting to make one myself.
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