If you ever want to measure the input/output speed of your interfaces you can use ifstat. This is a really cool utility and I just installed it and had it running in less than 3 minutes. Grab it, untar it, and make sure /usr/sfw/bin and /usr/ccs/bin are in your PATH. ./configure; make; make install

Once you run it, it automatically starts logging in/out KB/sec on your interface.
Here’s me transferring a 600MB file from my solaris machine to linux machine:

KB/s in KB/s out
0.00 0.00
0.20 0.13
0.00 0.00
514.66 20853.94
514.25 21564.71
814.88 33671.18
787.98 32942.04
778.22 32055.16
820.35 34272.25
805.25 34045.20
807.75 33977.55
822.91 34546.12
799.83 33339.39
832.44 34547.16
797.99 33147.15
840.15 34767.95
840.07 34464.00
841.79 34524.27
784.47 32330.31
639.21 26542.30
694.19 28859.22
800.51 33386.52
562.46 23486.51

Here’s what Solaris FTP reported after it was sent:

615586930 bytes sent in 20 seconds (30495.36 Kbytes/s)

Seems about right.

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