[nylug-talk] Looking to analyze the characteristics of my network

[Michael B Allen]

Just take two machines that you think should perform at Gigabit speeds and
connected them directly to one another. Then try some tests with FTP and
look at the rate (or use nc and compute the rate). If it's low then check
each NIC. Make sure it's MTU is right, that both NICs are full-duplex,
the drivers don't require special options, etc. Once you get two machines
tweeked the rest should be obvious.

Mike

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:19:58 -0700 (PDT)
Jim McBride <jgmcbride at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Got a network with gig everywhere. Gig switches, NIC cards and CAT6E cabling.
> Network doesn___t seem to be all that fast. Did a lot of research on the Web looking for tools (inexpensive) that will enable me to see how the network is behaving, throughput, latency etc.
> 
> Any direction would be greatly appreciated. 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
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