Re: [LARTC] Measuring throughput

["Jay Wineinger" <shad@wnoc.com>]

I personally like using rrdtool with snmp.  Its a bit more difficult to
setup than some tool like iptraf, but it gives you a nice graph of whats
going on.  It also keeps a set history of data so you can view trends, etc.

Jay

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth Porter" <shiva@sewingwitch.com>
To: "LARTC List" <LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl>
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 1:29 PM
Subject: [LARTC] Measuring throughput


> I'm running a game server which uses a lot of UDP traffic on a 4 Mbps
> connection. I'd like to figure out how much of that I'm really using
> (inbound vs. outbound) and I'd like to verify my bandwidth cap.
>
> The host also runs a web and FTP server and I'm running wshaper to keep
> those from hurting game traffic. But I'm concerned that it might be
> artificially capping my bandwidth and that I might need to tweak it.
>
> I've got ntop running (http://matureasskickers.net:3000/) and it tells me
> that in a massive game last night (50 players) I used 2.2 Mbps, but I
don't
> know whether that's inbound, outbound, or the sum of both. Is there
another
> tool better for this measurement?
>
> I'd like to simulate lots of game traffic by flooding UDP packets out of
> the box (say, to my home system) to verify the bandwidth cap. What tool
> would be good for doing that? (The Slapper worm doesn't count! ;))
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