My preferred solution to this is using Symbel and Orca to track this historical
performance of the NICs as well as numerous other useful datapoints regarding
your server.

However, this solution only works on Sun systems... ;-)

--PLB

At 04:16 PM 2/13/2001 -0600, Pearson, Kim (STP) wrote:
>What is the best way to benchmark network throughput? We are using 2 Gigabit
>ethernet ports on our NetBackup Master/Media server, and we are not seeing
>the throughput we are expecting for backups. Since we stream multiple
>classes to each drive, I'm inclined to believe that it's the network, not
>the 8 DLT drives.  They sit idle a lot...shoe shining? We are using crude
>copy scripts now to try to measure throughput - anyone got something better?
>
>HW - Sun E450, 2 Sun Gb PCI cards dedicated to the backup segment...
>
>Thanks!
>
>Kim
>Kim Pearson
>UNIX Team Lead
>Guidant Corporation
>kim.pearson AT guidant DOT com
>
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