Eric Logeson wrote:
> Hello List
>
> I wanted to get some basic bandwidth statistics across a WAN link. The
> approach I think I am going to take is the following:
> Use a perl scipt to read in a bunch of files, determine the sizes, start
> a timer (not sure how to do this yet), copy the files across the link
> (winxp->win2003 server), stop the timer,
What do you mean by copy ? Are you tunneling a Windoze LAN across the
Internet (sharing devices acroos a WAN) or using FTP or ??
> and finally write out the bytes/sec metric to a log file. I planned on
> scheduling the perl script to run every hour or so for a week.
For a bit better timer resolution:
my $t0 = Win32::GetTickCount ();
<time stuff here>
my $elapsed = Win32::GetTickCount ();
printf "%.3f seconds\n", ($elapsed - $t0) / 1000;
or more portable:
use Time::HiRes qw(gettimeofday tv_interval);
my $t0 = [&gettimeofday ()];
<time stuff here>
my $elapsed = tv_interval ($t0);
printf "%.3f seconds\n", $elapsed;
> Are there modules of interest for this project. Any suggestions on the
> approach?
For the file copy to a shared device or remotely mounted filesystem,
I would look at Win32API::File or Win32::FileOp to do the copy.
Other than that (which should give you better copy times from shared
network devices), you shouldn't need more than the basic modules.
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