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!

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.

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.

Hi again ppl,

All understood.

Thanks!