Contents

  1. netperf
    1. Availability and IPv6 support
    2. Description
    3. Comments
    4. Usage information
    5. Categories
    6. Source of information

netperf

Availability and IPv6 support

Name

IPv6 support

Supported operating systems

netperf

yes

UNIX, Linux, *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

Comments

Usage information

Categories

CategoryApps, CategoryAppstesting_and_monitoring

Source of information

FreeBSD port collection

Campus6: Apps_netperf (last edited 2008-04-10 15:29:33 by localhost)