Bandwidth Check 1.0

Bandwidth Check is a small utility that helps an administrator measure the available bandwidth. In order to make use of this utility, you will need to turn on the chargen service, which is provided in many inetd implementations.

In order to make use of this utility, you will need to turn on chargen protocol.

To enable chargen on Linux:

create the following file /etc/xinetd.d/charge
service chargen
{
type = INTERNAL
id = chargen-stream
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
user = root
wait = no
disable = no
}
service xinetd restart

To Compile bwcheck

gcc -o bwcheck bwcheck.c

To execute

./bwcheck

./bwcheck 172.16.11.2
Throughput: 73390.74 kb