[OT]Network speed test

[Morris, Patrick]

Israel Brewster wrote:
> This isn't a nagios question so much as a general network diagnostic 
> question, but since nagios is all about network monitoring and 
> diagnostics, I figured it was likely someone here would know the 
> answer. I am looking for a tool for testing network speeds on our 
> "local" network, similar to internet speed sites. The difference being 
> that I need something I can install somewhere on our local network so 
> we can get site-to-site results between our main hub and our 
> outstations. The idea being to test the actual speed we are getting 
> over our private links. This wouldn't necessarily need to integrate 
> with Nagios however, as it would just be for periodic spot checks - 
> thus the OT label. Thanks.


Most routers have a way to check current throughput.  I'd start there.

If you're looking for single-connection throughput, the old 
download-a-file-and-see-how-long-it-takes method works pretty well.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace,
Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW
http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null