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[Richard Carlson <>]

Hi Jason;

At 10:49 PM 2/15/2006, Nash, Jason wrote:


> Thank you very much for your help. That was the problem. I really appreciate
> all your hard work on this project.  Just so you know after I got everything
> working I ran speed tests on our WAN connections.  We have multiple 45 meg
> ethernet connections, one of the connections tested out at only 10 mbps.
> Found out that the provider had a misconfigured etherenet interface.  So for
> 3 or 4 years we have been paying for 45 mbps and only getting 10.  Without
> NDT we probably never would have noticed it.
> Thank you again!

Thanks for the support.  I'm glad you have found the tool useful.

> That being said I do have one more question.  I'm trying to find the oldest
> verision of java that I can so that I don't have to upgrade the java client
> on my winxp box's.  I'm currently using j2sdk1.4.2_10, but that ver is still
> to new.  Is there a ver that will work?

I started developing this tool with the 1.2.2 SDK, and so far every version 
I've tried has worked.  I think the answer is, you can fall back to an 
earlier SDK version without concern, other than the questions about Sun 
support for old SDK versions.

Best Regards;
Rich Carlson




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Carlson 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 8:21 AM
> To: 
> ;
>  
>
> Subject: Re: Re: Ashamed to ask but...
>
> Jason;
>
> There might be a bug in my conf/create-html.sh script.  It uses a template
> file (tcpbw100.template) to create the tcpbw100.html page.  If this
> template isn't found then the script may create an empty html file.  The
> fix is to run the create-html.sh script from the man ndt directory, not
> from the conf sub-directory.
>
> So check the length of the tcpbw100.html file, if i't now around 8
> KB,  then the create script failed.  Run it again as described here and see
> what happens.
>
> My server has the following:
> [rcarlson@web100
>  ~]$ ls -l /usr/local/ndt/tcpbw100.html
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 7926 Jan 19 10:35 /usr/local/ndt/tcpbw100.html
>
> Rich
> At 12:08 AM 2/15/2006, 
>
>  wrote:
> >I'm having a similar problem.  After building NDT, I ran the script to
> >create the custom web page, and I let the script copy the html page into
> >the /usr/local/ndt/ directory.  I then started the fakeWWW service and NDT
> >using the following commands.
> >/usr/local/sbin/fakewww -p80 >& /dev/null &
> >/usr/local/sbin/web100srv -a >& /dev/null &
> >When I go to my webpage all I get is a blank page. No error messages or
> >anything.
> >I am still doing a lot of learning on Linux so it's probably something
> >that I'm doing wrong.
> >
> >Here's what I'm using
> >Fedora4
> >kernel 2.6.15.2
> >Java j2sdk1.4.2_10
> >libpcap-2006.02.01
> >ndt-3.1.4b
> >web100_userland-1.5
> >
> >Thanks for any and all help!
> >Jason
>
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Richard A. Carlson                              e-mail: 

Network Engineer                                phone:  (734) 352-7043
Internet2                                       fax:    (734) 913-4255
1000 Oakbrook Dr; Suite 300
Ann Arbor,  MI  48104