Re: looking for ideas about how to create a constant data stream

[Jonathan Billings <billings@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 30, 2020, at 06:46, Anand Buddhdev <anandb@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> You can't read from /dev/null. You get nothing from it. You're better off using /dev/random, for example. That will give you a continuous stream of random bytes.

/dev/random will block when you run out of entropy, so you won’t get a consistent flow of data after some time.  /dev/zero should always return data, though.   It I agree it makes more sense to use iperf. 

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Jonathan Billings <billings@xxxxxxxxxx>
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