speedfrom(1)

SPEEDFROM(1) General Commands Manual SPEEDFROM(1)

NAME

speedfrom - Measure and report the TCP network capacity transmitting between here and a specified node

SYNOPSIS

speedfrom host

DESCRIPTION

Speedfrom is a convenient shell script wrapper for ettcp. Speedfrom passes the appropriate arguments to ettcp to measure TCP transmit capacity to the local host from the specified host, over a ten second peroid. Speedfrom assumes that the remote host is running something like the blow program via xinetd on port 5501.

SEE ALSO

ettcp(1), speedto(1)

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