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Determine switch buffer size

Hi everybody,

I need to calculate the tcp buffer size of a network switch, since it's not specified in the manual; how do I do this?

I have some machines connected to the switch and I can run some socket tests written in C between these machines (I can choose how many bytes to send and calculate the senders' and receiver's bandwidth) and I guess I need to keep sending more and more data until I see some slowdown in the sender's bandwidth (because that means that the senders are sending more data than the switch can handle), but I'm not sure about this.

Thanks for your help!
 
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GUESSNET-SCAN(8)					      System Manager's Manual						  GUESSNET-SCAN(8)

NAME
guessnet-scan - guess network configuration data by looking at network traffic SYNOPSIS
guessnet-scan [options] [ethernet_interface] DESCRIPTION
Guessnet-scan tries to deduce network configuration data by watching network traffic at a given Ethernet interface. After scanning network traffic for some time, guessnet-scan prints a configuration string suitable for inclusion in /etc/network/inter- faces. Note that guessnet-scan uses heuristics and wild guesses and that the resulting data is not guaranteed to be accurate. The program is intended to be used as a first try at getting network configuration data without bothering anyone. OPTIONS
Options follow the usual GNU conventions, --debug Print debugging messages. --help Show a brief summary of commandline options. --init-time=int Time in seconds to wait for the interface to initialize when it is not found already up at program startup. Default: 3 seconds. -t, --timeout=int Time in seconds to watch for network traffic. Default: 5 seconds. -v, --verbose Operate verbosely. --version Show the version number of the program. SCANNING REQUIREMENTS
To correctly identify all data of the local network, guessnet-scan needs to see traffic related to a host in the local network and to the local gateway, if any. To be able to identify the network gateway, guessnet-scan also needs to see some traffic directed to the external network: you can help the detection by generating some outbound IP traffic during the scan, for example by browsing a web page (without proxy) or using telnet to open a connection to some remote host. Note that if you are connected to a switch, guessnet-scan won't probably be able to work, since the switch will isolate it from the network traffic that the other machines are generating. SEE ALSO
guessnet(8), interfaces(5). AUTHOR
Guessnet-scan was written by Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>. 10 October 2004 GUESSNET-SCAN(8)