Okay cool.  I hope they didn't set a fixed buffer size.  I will download
iperf2 and try it out.  I'll let you know how if there are any issues.
BTW: Do you know who is responsible for iperf3?  That's the tool that I
have been getting limited bandwidth reports on.

On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 2:23 PM Bob McMahon <bob.mcma...@broadcom.com> wrote:

> I just checked with our windows engineer and he said the iperf 2
> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf2/>team no longer uses cygwin but
> rather builds a native version.
>
> Bob
>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 2:07 PM Daniel Havey <dha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm Daniel Havey from Microsoft Windows.  I'm the PM for transports
>> (TCP/QUIC) and there is a bug in the cygwin1.dll that was distributed with
>> the iperf binaries.  The bug limits maximum bandwidth achievable by the
>> iperf tool.  Details can be found in my blogpost:
>> https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/networking-blog/windows-network-performance-suffering-from-bad-buffering/ba-p/339668
>>
>> We worked with RedHat on Cygwin to fix the bug, but I am still getting
>> reports of limited bandwidth from windows iperf users.  The fix is simple.
>> Just download the new cygwin1.dll from the cygwin website and the problem
>> will be fixed.
>>
>> thanks ;)
>> ...Daniel
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