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keywords:network,diagnostic,tool,ndt,speed,network,testing,build,rpm,source,commandline,command,line,bash,shell,sh description:Build the web100clt from source, and run to determine network speeds. title:NDT client build and test No kernel patch or special software is necessary to build the web100clt command line client. While you must patch your kernel to run the NDT server, no patches are necessary for the client. There is a client Java applet that runs in a web browser. I'm unclear why the command line "client" is not simply the Java applet as an application. This is useful to test speeds between servers when your server isn't running a graphical desktop (aka X windows, aka runlevel 5). You can probably build this in your user directory, but I just built and installed it as root. You can run it from a normal user account. The NDT servers below have http web interfaces. http://web100.misc.virginia.edu:7123/ http://ndt-201.net.berkeley.edu:7123/ There seems to be a bug in the Java applet with Firefox Linux. The start button briefly appears, then the entire set of buttons disappears. Reload the page and quickly click "Start". I'm running all this with Fedora 11. Here are the web100clt build commands: su -l root wget http://software.internet2.edu/sources/ndt/ndt-3.5.0.tar.gz tar -zxvf ndt-3.5.0.tar.gz cd ndt-3.5.0 ./configure make find . -name "web100clt*" file src/web100clt cp src/web100clt /usr/local/bin/ exit web100clt -n web100.misc.virginia.edu web100clt -n ndt-201.net.berkeley.edu