How to force a connection to go out of machine?

[William Park]

Thanks.  Ping flood gives me 10Mbit up/down, 20Mbit combined which would
agree with 2MB/s that I observed.
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William

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 03:54:32PM -0300, Mauro Souza wrote:
> Not directly answering your question, but a tip...
> 
> If you want to test the wireless speed, put wifi and cable connections on
> separate subnets. If you have 2 computers, try a ping flood on the wireless
> interface (sudo ping -f -s 1400 ip-address). Take a look at your bandwidth
> (both iftop and iptraf does a good job). After that, flood ping the wired
> interface.
> 
> If you notice a very different rate on the two nets, check if your wireless
> network is using a busy channel. I use airodump-ng to see what channel the
> networks around me are using. Or your wifi card is not that good.
> 
> Mauro
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> 
> 
> 2013/5/16 William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm getting 2MB/s wireless throughput on N750 dual-band router.  So,
> > something is wrong somewhere.  In order to test more throughly, I need
> > to force a connection to actually go out of the machine.  How do I do
> > that?
> >
> > Say, I have 2 interfaces connected to a router:
> >     - wlan0 = 192.168.1.3 -- wireless
> >     - eth0 = 192.168.1.100  -- long cable
> > Normally, the machine simply route the connection internally.  But, I
> > need it to go to the router on "wlan0" and then back to me on "eth0",
> > and vice versa.
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> > William
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