I'm starting to see defective nics and it seems to me that nst would make a great platform for testing nics. I'm thinking boot to live on a known good system and connect straight through, no switch, to another system running nst with nics to be tested. Run wireshark and either pump some sort of packet generation across the connection or large file copy. Wondering if you guys already have something worked up for this type of scenario or recommend apps already on the nst.
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You may also want to consider using the nstnetcfg script to quickly configure each interface you want to test. See the following Wiki article (it has links to two more):
I'm starting to see defective nics and it seems to me that nst would make a great platform for testing nics. I'm thinking boot to live on a known good system and connect straight through, no switch, to another system running nst with nics to be tested. Run wireshark and either pump some sort of packet generation across the connection or large file copy. Wondering if you guys already have something worked up for this type of scenario or recommend apps already on the nst.
Ron has an excellent article written up on the NST Wiki related to this topic. See:
LAN Ethernet Maximum Rates, Generation, Capturing & Monitoring
You may also want to consider using the nstnetcfg script to quickly configure each interface you want to test. See the following Wiki article (it has links to two more):
HowTo Setup An NST System With Multiple Network Interface Adapters Using: "nstnetcfg"
The man page for nstnetcfg should be on your system, you can also find it online at:
http://nst.sourceforge.net/nst/docs/scripts/nstnetcfg.html
There should be enough information and parts in the above to allow you to create a "ethtest" script without too much effort.
Hope that helps.