I’ve seen a few posts on the web about testing your network speeds with netcat, but they all seem to not work with recent versions of netcat.
On one machine, run:
nc -v -l 2222 > /dev/null
(Make sure you’re not blocking connections to 2222!)
On a second machine, run:
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024K count=512 | nc -v $IP_OF_FIRST_MACHINE 2222
dd will give you your speed:
536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 4.87526 s, 117 MB/s
Yay, gigabit!
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ymmv, test with /dev/zero at your own risk. Speak with your NOC before
starting any network infrastructure changes.
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