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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' <raj@cup.hp.com> 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

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Usage information

Categories

CategoryApps, CategoryAppstesting_and_monitoring

Source of information

FreeBSD port collection