May 2017
Beginner
552 pages
28h 47m
English
Content preview from Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition
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Measuring network bandwidth
The previous discussion of ping and traceroute was on measuring the latency of a network and the number of hops between nodes.
The iperf application provides more metrics for a networks' performance. The iperf application is not installed by default, but it is provided by most distributions' package manager.