#gentoo

carstenraddatz@pluspora.com

Given less voyeurism, testing bandwidth can also be done this way and with less side effects. Set desired bandwidth with e.g. -L 12M for 12mbps and send them a constant stream with they pipe into /dev/null like this:

pv -r -L 32M /dev/urandom | ssh user@my.testserv.er "cat > /dev/null"

On Gentoo pipe view pv is available as sys-apps/pv.

#streaming #bandwidth #networking #urandom #pv #gentoo