Iperf and quad NIC cards


Hi,

I need help with a 802.11g WLAN test using multiple client bridges connected to individual interfaces on a quad (100Mb Ethernet) NIC card running under Linux.  It appears that all ports of the quad NIC may not always keep the clients equally busy (or there’s an internal problem in the client bridges). This should not be a problem because each interface/bridge can only carry about 20Mb over the air. Can anyone help by:

1.  Pointing out any reports of a similar phenomenon when using a quad NIC card with iperf (or believed absence of same).

2. Advising how to configure to avoid any differential packet turnaround delays between interfaces.

3. Suggesting a test strategy to differentiate between quad NIC, TCP, and 802.11g root causes for unbalanced throughput measurements.

4. Any other help.

Thanks to all,

Bob Jenness

 

P.S.  I’ve got some interesting spectrograms of the over-the-air behavior in this case.  If you’re interested in that sort of thing, ask for and I’ll post a sample.



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