Linuxppc and MPC8255 routing performance

[Val Henson]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 06:02:14PM +0300, Ricardo Scop wrote:
>
> >  Using FTP as a benchmark isn't usually the best choice.  You
> > should be running carefully controlled network benchmark applications.
>
> Err.. any suggestions, on those?
>
> Thank you, so far!

Netperf is most common:

http://www.netperf.org/

I prefer netpipe:

http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/netpipe/

Either will do the job.  Write yourself some scripts to do the tests
and also to graph the results automatically.  Just looking at the
numbers as they scroll by won't give you much information on
performance improvement.

-VAL

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