Network throughput

[Prashant Zanwar_4]

I RUN REDHAT LINUX Enterprise edition. I dont have much ideas, so keep digging time to time about something to do!

I want to know network performance of my host. Are there any tools on Linux for this..what will be the best way!
Thanks
Prashant

[xyko_1]

Hi Prashant,

what you mean about network performance ?

You want to know about colisions, errors ? You want to know about nic configuration ?

Well,
#ifconfig -a will report to you colisions, errors and a lot of other informations.

#ethtool ethn
will display and configure nic configuration.

You may use netstat also. This utility has a lot of functions that you may see at the man page.
#man netstat

Regards,
Xyko

[Georg Tresselt]

I guess he is looking for something graphical.

[Chris Xu]

Take a look at netwatch. You have to download and install it, though. Here is what the first line of man page says about it:
Netwatch examines all the packets travelling on an ethernet and analyses the IP packets.

Chris

[Prashant Zanwar_4]

I want to count on the network traffic overall...Like snoop and other stuff..like glance does..
Is there something available on LINUX which can give me data on this!
Prashant

[Biswajit Tripathy]

"netperf" is probably the tool you want.
See
http://www.netperf.org/

Link to the binaries for linux are available at the
above website.

- Biswajit

[Prashant Zanwar_4]

Is there nothing available with linux itself..thats something strange...! I am in a environement of secure sites and servers, probably wont be able to install any TP, lemme figure out what shall i go for!
If anyone has any suggestion pls send across

Thanks & regards
Prashant

[xyko_1]

Hi Prashant,

I went to look a litle bit about snoop and I guess tcpdump has a similar function.

I think "netstat -i" will give part of you want about nic statistics.

regards,
xyko

[rick jones]

netperf will generate traffic but only measure what it generates

[KevinHu_1]

see http://www.mrtg.org








regard
kevinhu