[afnog] Bandwidth measurement

[Phil Regnauld]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 08:08:38PM +0000, Brian Candler wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 09:09:05PM +0200, Antonio Godinho wrote:
> > Thanks Brian. I think that is bing works, right?
> 
> Dunno, haven't used it. I prefer simple tools that are easy to understand -
> and a straightforward measurement of RTT is about as simple as you can get.

	That's what bing does...

"Bing determines the real (raw, as opposed to available or average)
throughput on a link by measuring ICMP echo requests roundtrip times for
different packet sizes for each end of the link."

But anyway, for very fast networks, ftp, iperf/netperf are the way to go.