Iperf 2 site has a man page. Make install will install the man page per the
latest version. You'll want to compile from source for bounceback. Branch
of master or 2-1-8-rc has that code. It will be generally released with
2.1.8 when that's complete and fully tested.

https://iperf2.sourceforge.io/iperf-manpage.html

https://sourceforge.net/p/iperf2/code/ci/master/tree/doc/CLOCKSYNC_NOTES

Bob

On Sat, Jul 16, 2022, 1:07 AM Ohad Vano <ohadv...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am interested in measuring network latency over TCP connection.
> Where can I find documentation for these flags? (such as the --boundback
> or --trip-times)
> Can't find these on the iperf website documentation.
>
> Ohad
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 12:40 AM Bob McMahon <bob.mcma...@broadcom.com>
> wrote:
>
>> "IPerf 2 <https://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf2/> is different from
>> the iperf3 <https://github.com/esnet/iperf>. Each can be used to measure
>> network performance, however, they DO NOT interoperate. They are completely
>> independent implementations with different strengths, different options,
>> and different capabilities. Both are under active development"
>>
>> iperf 2 latency & one way delay (OWD) results are reliable assuming one
>> has synchronized the clocks to a common reference.  Tests such as
>> --bounceback don't require clock sync as it uses a TCP round trip
>> measurement, i.e. write() to read() and back.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 1:16 PM Ohad Vano <ohadv...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I can't find a way to measure latency over TCP using iperf3. I think
>>> that this feature is supported in iperf2. Why isn't this supported in
>>> iperf3? Are the iperf2 results reliable?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ohad
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