From eugen@leitl.org Fri Jun 5 16:11:34 2015 From: Eugen Leitl To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: How to verify speed of a 1Gb/s network? Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:09:46 +0200 Message-ID: <20060428070946.GZ22800@leitl.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0746704437576305517==" --===============0746704437576305517== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 11:40:30PM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > 1 billion bits per second is 1*10^9 bits, contrast with 2^30 bits which bc > says is 1073741824 > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit As opposed to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibit As to measuring throughput, http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/netpipe/ is your friend. You might also look into jumbo frames, if your switch fabric supports it. See also http://dcs.nac.uci.edu/~strombrg/jumbo.html -- Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --===============0746704437576305517== Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" MIME-Version: 1.0 LS0tLS1CRUdJTiBQR1AgU0lHTkFUVVJFLS0tLS0KVmVyc2lvbjogR251UEcgdjEuNC4yLjIgKEdO VS9MaW51eCkKCmlEOERCUUZFVWIrNmRiQWtRNHNwOXI0UkFqOWZBSjQrSnY2aTEvWXp3T2NGR2Nj bEdEZUdzSlY5SVFDZUlmNEEKc2JEYXJzWmh1RmMwN0lRK1NkTngvTlE9Cj1ZbXByCi0tLS0tRU5E IFBHUCBTSUdOQVRVUkUtLS0tLQo= --===============0746704437576305517==--