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ItsMr.Data asks: "Recently, the department I work in has been planning on rolling out a new gigabit backbone network. We have been looking for ways to test network congestion. I am looking for a simple but accurate tool to test different paths through the network. I looked at Iperf, but I wonder what other test setups are out there, and if any are customizable to emulate differing types of traffic, such as streaming media, file sharing traffic, and video conferencing. So, what network performance testing setups do you use?"

It's late. Watchin' MST. Cursing slow 21.6 connection. Sharing good stuff: Trae wrote in to tell us that this weeks Guest Tiler is Mandrake. Ben Hutchings wrote in with a link to Official Word on the Amiga/Linux stuff. Jambi wrote in to seek help in his network analysis work. Brandon Beattie wrote in to see if anyone out there is interested in assisting in developing a Linux game. Interested folks should email. Brian Keifer sent us a link to an article talking about Atomic Microscope Technology which could allow amazing amounts of fast data storage.

It's late. Watchin' MST. Cursing slow 21.6 connection. Sharing good stuff: Trae wrote in to tell us that this weeks Guest Tiler is Mandrake. Ben Hutchings wrote in with a link to Official Word on the Amiga/Linux stuff. Jambi wrote in to seek help in his network analysis work. Brandon Beattie wrote in to see if anyone out there is interested in assisting in developing a Linux game. Interested folks should email. Brian Keifer sent us a link to an article talking about Atomic Microscope Technology which could allow amazing amounts of fast data storage.