Is there a common method for testing the quality of a network link between two networked machines? This is for situations where the link works 99.99% of the time, but should work 99.99999% of the time, with the failures being dropped packets or whatever. This would be used for tracking down slightly defective patch cables, switch ports, NICs, and the like. Is ping used like this:
ping -i .0001 -c 1000000 -f targetmachine adequate? It gives decent statistics, but doesn't seem like a very good simulation of a typical network load, in particular, the packet contents aren't varying. Thanks, David Mathog mat...@caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
