#acl All:read contribGroup:read,write <> = netperf = == Availability and IPv6 support == || '''Name''' || '''IPv6 support''' || '''Supported operating systems''' || || [[http://www.netperf.org/|netperf]] || [[ftp://ftp.kame.net/pub/kame/misc/|yes ]] || UNIX, Linux, [[http://www.freshports.org/search.php?query=netperf|*BSD]] || == Description == Rick Jones' network performance benchmarking package. Netperf is a serious networking performance evaluation tool being distributed under GPL by HP's Information Networks Division. Testing is done using a pair of programs: `netserver' (the server) and `netperf' (the measurement tool). Netperf allows control over a large number of test `variables'. Some of these are: * specification of desired confidence levels for the tests Netperf will warn the user if these levels were not achieved. * filling send buffers with specified data (to beat compression schemes) * specification of send/recieve buffer alignments and data offsets * requesting cpu utilization and service demand calculations * specification of sizes of data to send Netperf can be used for measuring stream performance as well as round-trip performance. This port of netperf has been configured to support: TCP and UDP via BSD sockets Unix domain sockets == Comments == == Usage information == == Categories == CategoryApps, CategoryAppstesting_and_monitoring == Source of information == FreeBSD port collection