Put your 'Test' hat on

Started By Ski, Oct 28 2010 10:20 PM

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#1 Ski

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Posted 28 October 2010 - 10:20 PM

At work, we are currently building 24 port secure switches, and as such, it's my job to test them. No problem, but I can make it easier - I think....

I was bequeathed an older machine for this task that is set up with some distro of Ubuntu. It has 6 4 port Ethernet cards, don't ask where they got them, cuz, I don't know. At any rate, he had a script set up in Linux to simply ping from 12 of the ports thru the switch and back to the other 12, and test the machine good or bad. This guy has since left, and I want to do the same, but in Windows, makes it a lot easier with almost everyone involved. Ping is simple - ping XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX. How do I select each of the 12 ports, I know how to direct the 'ping', but I don't know how to tell it which card to ping from...... Make sense? I also have to run this for about 8 hours - the EUT (equipment under test) is in a 'climate' chamber - sub zero to ~125F for about 8 hours.

I can keep using Linux, but to try to explain it to others is getting old, especially since I really don't know much about the script he wrote.

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Posted 28 October 2010 - 11:09 PM

Oh Boy. I am not a script kiddie. So personal scripts are outside of my expertise.

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set up with some distro of Ubuntu

in terminal. The commands

cat /etc/issue

or

cat /proc/version

will give you the version of Ubuntu that is installed.

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I know how to direct the 'ping', but I don't know how to tell it which card to ping from...... Make sense?

Is this card PCI interface?

sudo lspci

will list all pci interface on motherboard.

http://www.yolinux.c...Networking.html

http://ubuntuforums....d.php?t=1206874

Is above Ubuntu thread close to what you are trying Ski? I am just a home user. So no experience with server with multi-port ethernet setup. :blonde_moment: