[CentOS] Command line tool to test bandwidth between 2 servers

Thu Feb 7 02:40:18 UTC 2008
nate <centos at linuxpowered.net>

Barry Brimer wrote:

> iperf <http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/> .. also available from
> rpmforge
> <http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/iperf/>

Iperf is great, I think I've managed to sustain 990Mbit/s between a
pair of linux servers on the same GigE switch with no tuning. Of course
when doing file transfers, local I/O subsystems limited the transfer
to about 250-300Mbit(pair of 7200RPM SATA disks on each end).

nate