Ok, I'm trying to determine what my options are with the following, and I'm sure I can do something with Perl here ;)

I've got several (potentially many) Win32 clients that connect to a Linux box (RH 7.2, has Perl installed), that then basically port maps the connection to other Win32 hosts on the local subnet.

Everything works as intended so far. Now, I'm trying to add some sort of automated connection speed estimation so that I can adjust compression rates on the client side. Because the end connection is on the local subnet, I'm only going to worry about the connection speed between the client and my port mapping box.

The Win32 client software is patched together using Visual Basic for size and look-and-feel reasons and is really just a GUI frontend and wrapper for a couple of other programs.

Is there any sort of Perl hackery out there now to do something like this on the Linux box side of things?? I've searched Google and came up with some old hits about someone doing this with a CGI script, but no code...

Sample code appreciated.

Thanks,

Glenn

In reply to estimating effective connection speed by Anonymous Monk

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