[olug] Active bandwidth monitoring

[Christopher Cashell]

At Mon, 16 Jul 07, Unidentified Flying Banana Daniel Linder, said:
> I'm trying to pro-actively monitor the "real world" speed that I'm getting
> with my @Work connection.
> 
> Questions:
> 1: Has anyone run across a tool like this that is free and will run on Linux?

If you have access to remote machines, iperf[0] will likely do the
trick.  It runs as a client/server setup and allows you to measure
various bandwidth/performance related statistics between the two hosts.

It runs on most Unix variants, and is open source.

> Dan

  [0] http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/

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