Test network performance

This command test memory to memory copies over rsh (a low overhead protocol). This should be about all the throughput you are going to get from your network adapters:

export RSH_TEST_HOST=hostname
time dd if=/dev/zero count=1000 bs=1M | rsh $RSH_TEST_HOST dd of=/dev/null

If you want to test TCP, here’s the same thing using FTP:

ftp> put "|dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1000" /dev/null

and NCFTP with time:

time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1000 | /usr/local/bin/ncftpput -u USER -p PASSWORD -c HOST /dev/null