Hi Toasters,

I've got the following question. I'm used to measure the dedicated network throughput between two linux systems with the following method:

# Target: TARGET:/>>> netcat -l -p 2000 > /dev/null

# Source: SOURCE:/>>> dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1024 | netcat TARGET 2000 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1,1 GB) copied, 9,43544 s, 114 MB/s

This simple usage of netcat just provides me the theoretical throughput in our gigabit lan between these two servers.

-- My question is, if anybody has an idea how to adopt such a method to a filer? Is there any possibility to measure the theoretical network throughput without producing any disk io's?

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