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Is there any piece of software that I can use to run between a client and a linux or windows server with a smb/cifs share that will test network speed, latency, sustained read/writes, multiple file create, read, write, close, etc.. etc.. over X period time? I'm testing a Centos server with samba and Windows 2k3/8 servers on the other end of a T1 connection and while I know the T1 bandwidth

I'm looking for an open source router solution, and someone from the list recently recommended zebra (www.zebra.org). I haven't yet identified all my needs, but I'm guessing that it will do all my routing needs for a, say, class C set of IP addresses, particularly if I ever have to do anything BGP-related. Anyone have any pointers before I delve in? Or possibly a recommendation for

Hi all, I''ve got a lot of video files on a zfs/cifs fileserver running SXCE. A little while ago the dual onboard NICs died and I had to replace them with a PCI 10/100 NIC. The system was fine for a couple of weeks but now the performance when viewing a video file from the cifs share is appauling. Videos stop and jerk with audio distortion. I have tried this from several client machines