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I have a one way connection between 2 computers (both Ubuntu). I am looking for an easy way to find the max bandwith. I need to find the max transfer rate between computer A and computer B without lost packets. Can someone advice?

Currently i am using netcat for this, but i am looking for a better way.

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  • What is a "half link" connection?
    – Sven
    Oct 25, 2012 at 10:17
  • I mean for one way connection. Oct 25, 2012 at 10:25

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Here is good article about bandwitch monitoring.

Here is list of those applications:

  • bmon
  • bwbar
  • bwm
  • bwm-ng
  • iftop
  • iperf
  • ipfm
  • speedometer
  • cbm
  • ibmonitor
  • pktstat
  • mactrack
  • MRTG
  • Cacti

Personally I recommend using bmon. It's enough for me.

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  • Good answer, but i dont looking for monitoring. I am looking for a way to find the MAX bandwith without any errors. Oct 25, 2012 at 11:41
  • You can't, you have to test it in order to get the bottleneck bandwidth.
    – scai
    Oct 25, 2012 at 11:47
  • @scai in the link that i post in the question they show how to measure with netcat , but the problem there is that you need to stop netcat manually and i dont know how much received and sent, so i am pretty sure that with some hacking like PV or netcat flag it can be done. Oct 25, 2012 at 13:53

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