From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: checking bandwidth in coyote Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 12:35:30 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20040511122021.02031090@celine> References: <1211088623.20040512014917@yahoo.com.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1211088623.20040512014917@yahoo.com.sg> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org At 01:49 AM 5/12/2004 +0700, otok_otok1998 wrote: >Hello linux-newbier, > >i want to know how to checking bandwidth on my coyote linux, i'm using >adsl connection, coyote on Pentium I as router.. thanx 4all Please be more descriptive about what exactly you want to check. For *example*: 1. Do you want to test actual throughput between a host on your LAN and some particular offsite host? 2. Do you want a way to test whether your ADSL line itself actually delivers the promised bandwidth? 3. Do you want to track your cumulative use of bandwidth every day for a month? In general, the way to measure throughput is to run ifconfig periodically and compute the differences in Rx and Tx bytes (or packets, if more appropriate to your purpose), or access the /proc/net/dev pseudofile directly for the same information. But to test the capacity of a connection, you will need to measure throughput during controlled tests. Fancy tools to measure throughput are, typically, just front ends to one or the other of these approaches. I haven't looked closely at coyote in years, and I doubt you'll find many coyote users here on this list ... so any advice you get will probably (certainly if from me) be based on standard Linux/Unix utilities, not anything specific to coyote. I believe that coyote has its own support list, so you might try that if you do want coyote-specific information. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs