Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Network: Monitor Outgoing Bandwidth Latency/Jitter on Linux

I have servers in two different data centers and connected via leased lines. How do I find out bandwidth latency and jitter between two servers using MS-Windows server, UNIX or Linux operating systems? How do I verify that my leased line based internet connection is stable between two data centers?

You need to use iperf which is a measurement tool for TCP/UDP bandwidth performance. iperf has a client and server functionality, and can measure the throughput between the two ends or servers, either unidirectonally or bi-directionally. It is open source software and runs on various platforms including Linux, Unix and Windows.



SmokePing To Find Network Latency

SmokePing is free and open source software which keeps track of your network latency:
  • Best of breed latency visualisation.
  • Interactive graph explorer.
  • Wide range of latency measurment plugins.
  • Master/Slave System for distributed measurement.
  • Highly configurable alerting system.
  • Live Latency Charts with the most ‘interesting’ graphs.

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