[olug] Prove your NIC / OS / Network Switch Performance

[Rob Townley]

None of us agree on which network switches give us the most bang for
the buck.  Just look at previous long exchanges of vendorA stinks vs
vendorB is great vs vendorC is great but too expensive.  The reality
is that network performance depends on many factors besides the
switch.  The nic os/driver for one.  Cable quality, distance, and
bundling another.  Back up your claims of network nads with metrics.
Show flashy graphs.

iPerf, jPerf, netPerf are projects intended to stress test individual
network connections and when done simultaneously, the network as a
whole.  i have used i && j Perf on Lin and Win.


Fwd: [netperf-talk] Netperf.org back online - at least partially - and
will be down again December 1st

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2 at hp.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Subject: [netperf-talk] Netperf.org back online - at least partially -
and will be down again December 1st
To: netperf-talk at netperf.org


Folks -

Having confirmed that my expertise lies not in system administration,
by taking entirely too long to bring netperf.org back online, I
*think* I have netperf.org back online.  I believe one can access the
repository, and if you are reading this email it also means that the
mailing lists are working again.

I do know that I don't have the FTP stuff going yet, but hope to take
care of that soonly.

For those curious, netperf.org has transitioned from an HP 9000 Model
A500 running a PA-RISC Debian to an HP ProLiant DL385 G2 running
Ubuntu Karmic Koala (yes, I do tend to run on old and/or obsolete
hardware :).  It also has RAID protection on the discs...  and I do
plan on setting-up a backup for the mailing lists, repositories and
website :)

If you encounter issues accessing netperf.org, please feel free to contact me.

happy benchmarking,

rick jones

PS - having finally gotten netperf.org online again, there will be a
power shutdown in its hosting machine room at 1700 hours on December
1st, 2009, U.S. Pacific time.  Figures...
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