Bandwith test from router to internet. The API way.

RouterOS Scripting
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Hi all,

I’m working in some scripts based in Mikrotik API. I was looking a way to make an API call from a linux box to a Mikrotik router and get the available download rate at the moment.

I found the way you mount a BTEST server in a external server and you use the mikrotik as a client. The problem here:

If you do it with hundreds of points simulatenous, it will fail (no enough bandwith to server to all at same time). I want to output it via API. Just the value.


Question here: It’s posible to make that task from the Mikrotik (using it’s own bandwith) to outside without other hardware?


Thanks!

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Btest is very cpu intensive and quite limited. It can easily affect the results just by running on the device involved in the tested path.

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Btest is supposed to tell you your maximum bandwidth between two points, not your “current” bandwidth.

To see how much bandwidth your router uses at a particular moment, you need to lookup the RX and TX values of your internet facing interfaces. Those values are not maximums, but they are current. You can even use the “/interface monitor-traffic” command to watch those rates as they change.

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Hi again ppl,

All understood.

Thanks! :slight_smile: