On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:17:06 -0700 Steve B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm seeking a little advice on a small in-house project. We are > installing a machine in house that will run FTP and iPerf as a means > for doing some simple bandwidth testing between a couple of different > endpoints. The box itself is a 1G AMD with 1GB of DDR RAM and an > ATA/66 hard drive. Due to the concerns of the drive subsystem not > being fast enough to dish out the test files over a 100MB LAN I've > been asked to use a ramdrive. Mgmt does not care what we in IT use > for the project so its going to be an OBSD box. The problem I am > faced with is how to implement MFS for a predefined user and their > associated /home/ username directory. A script or a user will login > to the test machine and transfer a series of files that are a pre- > determined size. Any thoughts, comments, suggestions or criticisms > would be helpful. Why use ftp with all its problems when you already know about iperf? There's also ttcp which is similar. Adam
