How to verify speed of a 1Gb/s network?

[Eric Schuele]

Mike Tancsa wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:16:06 -0700 (PDT), in
> sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> How can I verify that a 1Gb/s network is indeed
>> operating at its optimal speed? I tried this:
> 
> There are some useful tools in /usr/src/tools/tools/netrate/ to
> generate a lot of traffic.   Also, /usr/ports/benchmarks/iperf

I'll second the iperf vote.  That's definitely the way to go.

> 
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Regards,
Eric