viernes, 4 de enero de 2008

Iperf : Measuring your bandwidth (1)

Product : Iperf
Part Involved : Measure of bandwidth
Summary: Into my LAN connections, I want to measure the bandwidth between two data ports of my LAN.
Scenario : Troubleshooting and detect what type of applications executed into pc spends more networking resources.
Company : The National Cancer Institute of Peru (INEN).
Reference Date : January 2008.

After several tries of testing then I recomend you this excelent tool to follow and measure your bandwidth between two LAN locations designated by you.

1.- The executable file can be downloaded on : http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/ and is free and there are available on all the range of exe file for every plattform base of operating system.
2.- Locate the two data ports to test and marked one as "Server" while the other as "Client".
3.- After downloaded the executable file, proceed to unzip and placed it on some carpet.
4.- At the Server side you should type next command to enable the listen task:
> Ipers -s

5.- Adding the next flags you can configure at the Server and Client sides :
-w (size of TCP windows)
-t (the frecuency to throw the results on screen)
-f (using results based on : KBits, MBits, KBytes, MBytes)
6.- Then at the Client side you can adjust the command like than :
> Iperf -c 10.10.25.24 -t 1 -f KBytes -w 300K
"Testing from Client pc to 10.10.25.24 with updates of row information every 1 second, using the format KBytes with 300K of buffer socket size. "

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