Unix administration - Re: Diagnosing network slowness: server or network?

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Re: Diagnosing network slowness: server or network?

Robert Redelmeier

2005-06-24, 6:00 pm

In comp.dcom.lans.ethernet sinister <sinister@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Is there a utility for checking network speed? Trying ftp
> transfers is a reasonable "experiment" but kind of klunky.

`ttcp`. Run it in both directions.

Could you have a cabling problem? Field-made cables often
have a split pair that works OK in one direction but not well
in the other. Yet still give good link lights.

-- Robert