brunotavares.net: ScrapBook » network https://blog.brunotavares.net Notes. tech and a few thoughs Sun, 25 Nov 2018 17:59:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 Test network throughput between two machines https://blog.brunotavares.net/?p=269 https://blog.brunotavares.net/?p=269#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:19:23 +0000 bat http://blog.brunotavares.net/?p=269 Recently i needed to test the network troughput between my file server and one of the file server clients.

I came across iperf, its a client-server command line utility that sends data between the server ( one of the machines of the pair you want to test ) and the client ( the other machine of the pair )

The usage is pretty simple, in one of the machines ( that will work as server ):

iperf -s -p 65000

On the other machine ( the client ):

iperf -c <ip of the server> -p 65000

After a few seconds:

...
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  0.0-10.1 sec  8.88 MBytes  7.34 Mbits/sec
...
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