[Battlemesh] socat simpler than iperf

[Benjamin Henrion]

Hi,

Today I found a simpler way to make speed tests with socat+iptraf:

socat TCP-LISTEN:8003,,fork PIPE:/dev/null &
socat UDP-LISTEN:8002,,fork PIPE:/dev/null &
socat -b 300 -d -d -u /dev/zero UDP:192.168.0.160:8002
socat -b 300 -d -d -u /dev/zero TCP:192.168.0.160:8003

and play with the -b size, and launch iptraf on one of the boxes.

There is also a kernel packet generator, but I had not the time yet to
play with it.

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