10 gigabit Ethernet - Add on question

[John Hodrien]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, josh+poweredge at eldertimes.us wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 02:03:08PM +0100, Tino Schwarze wrote:
>> If you want to measure raw network performance, use netcat:
>> 1. run "netcat -p 4242 -l > somefile" on the receiving side
>> 2. run "netcat server 4242 < somefile" on the sending side
>
> With that test, you're measuring your disk-to-disk performance rather
> than "raw network performance", especially with 10gbe.  Typically to
> measure network peformance you want to use a tool like iperf or netperf.

It'd do, as long as somefile was /dev/null and /dev/zero respectively.

jh

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