At 07:33 17/05/00, Walt wrote:
>I have a 10/100 8 port switch and 100 24 port hub.
>Currently, I'm running everything out of the 24
>port hub, thinking that things will be faster on the
>same hub than if I have to patch the hub to the
>switch. Does this make sense or is a switch really
>that much
This is my first post so hello everyone :)
I just took a look at old freshmeat.net (an excellent source for
linux ware) and found a program I have heard others talk of called
netperf. It sounds like what you are looking for. The url
is http://www.netperf.org/netperf/NetperfPage.html and the bes
At 01:53 AM 5/17/00 -0400, you wrote:
>For the software, are you using Windows or Linux? In other words, what OS
>do you need the net statistics software to run on?
I have software for windows already, though it's
nice, it's rather simple. I would much prefer to
have something for my (linux) ser
There are other factors to consider in doing a network speed benchmark, not
just the card itself. It depends also on the connection to the network,
whether you are using a hub or a router. Now as I recall, if you're using
hubs, the lower transfer rates could be interference from other concurrent
At 15:05 15/05/00, Walt wrote:
>Also, what does the load average under uptime signify?
Load average is the number of processes in the run queue at once. (ie those
not stopped waiting for network, or IO but actually ready to do
processing).. The three numbers are averages over the last 30 secon
Can anyone tell me a network speed benchmark
site or utility? I'm curious what would be considered
'normal' transfer rates on a 100 BT network.
I'm using analogx's Netstat utility on my
win98 box. When transferring from my rhl server
I'm getting 6.3 MB per sec, when transferring
to the server I g
