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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Testing Bandwidth in linux machine

Here I am giveing couple of tools which can be used to Test bandwidth in Linux

1. Bing
Bing determines bandwidth  on  a  point-to-point  link  by sending  ICMP  ECHO_REQUEST  packets  and  measuring their roundtrip times for different packet sizes on each end  of the link.

To Install bing :
aptitude install bing
Where I get Help ???
* man bing
* http://linux.die.net/man/8/bing

2.
Bandwidth

BandwidthD tracks usage of TCP/IP network subnets and builds html files with graphs to display utilization.
Charts are built by individual IPs, and display utilization over 2 day, 8 day, 40 day, and 400 day periods.
Fur‐thermore, each ip address’s utilization can be logged out at intervals of 2.5 minutes, 10 minutes, 1 hour or 12 hours in cdf format.
HTTP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, VPN, and P2P traffic are color coded
How to install:
aptitude install bandwidthd
Where I get Help ???
* man bandwidthd