How to check the speed of network interface in RHEL AS server?

Barry Brimer lists at brimer.org
Sun Nov 19 05:51:16 UTC 2006


> How to check the speed of network interface in RHEL AS server?
> For example, I would like to estimate the amount of time it would take for
> me to send and recieve a file through ftp / scp from an RHEL AS server.

If you are looking for a point to point bandwidth testing tool, I 
recommend iperf.  <http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/> RPMforge has a 
package available at: <http://rpmforge.net/user/packages/iperf/>

Hope this helps.

Barry




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