Package netperf-2.3.4 was released 2007-01-08. Netperf is a general purpose tool for benchmarking bandwidth and performance of the Internet Protocol suite. The OpenSS7 Modified OpenSS7 NETPERF Utility package is an OpenSS7 Project (http://www.openss7.org/) release of the of the Hewlett-Packard `netperf' package configured to run with OpenSS7 STREAMS SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) and the OpenSS7 STREAMS XNS, XTI/TLI and INET packages.
The OpenSS7 NETPERF Utility package provide primarily the netperf(1) and netserver(8), C Language programs that act as Netperf client or server for testing connections and networking. The netserver(8) program is executed on one host acting as a server, and then netperf(1) is executed on another host acting in client mode. Characteristics of the connection or association can be altered when formed. Reporting formats and sample intervals can also be altered when the connection or association is formed. Users executing netperf(1) do not need to have shell access to the netserver(8) host. This is a fork of the Netperf package released by Hewlett-Packard modified by the OpenSS7 Project (http://www.openss7.org/) for use with OpenSS7 STREAMS XNS, XTI/TLI, INET and SCTP packages. This OpenSS7 release of the package is based on the Netperf-2.3 release from Hewlett-Packard. Modifications to the package are derived from the OpenSS7 STREAMS XNS, XTI/TLI, INET and SCTP implementations and are release under the `GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2'. The Netperf tool itself is licensed under specific terms by Hewlett-Packard. Please see file LICENSES for the Hewlett-Packard Netperf copyright notices and licensing restrictions. This is the fourth full release of the OpenSS7 NETPERF Utility package. This release is largely a maintenance release that provides support for more distributions an architectures as well as tracking feature updates on related packages: - Updates to permit use with strinet-0.9.2.4 second generation UDP driver, strsctp-0.9.2.6 STREAMS SCTP driver, sctp-0.2.24 Sockets SCTP driver. - Added `send-pr' scripts for automatic problem report generation. (Please do not report bugs on LiS.) - Added `--disable-devel' `configure' option to suppress building and installing development environment. This feature is for embedded or pure runtime targets that do not need the development environment (static libraries, manual pages, documentation). - Improved compiler flag generation and optimizations for recent gcc compilers and some idiosyncratic behaviour for some distributions (primarily SUSE). Optimized compilation is now available also for user level programs in addition to kernel programs. Added new `--with-optimize' option to `configure' to accomplish this. - Better detection of SUSE distributions, release numbers and SLES distributions: support for additional SuSE distributions on ix86 as well as x86_64. Added distribution support includes SLES 9, SLES 9 SP2, SLES 9 SP3, SLES 10, SuSE 10.1. - Many documentation updates for all OpenSS7 packages. Automated release file generation making for vastly improved and timely text documentation present in the release directory. - Now builds 32-bit compatibility libraries and tests them against 64-bit kernel modules and drivers. The `make installcheck' target will now automatically test both 64-bit native and 32-bit compatibility versions, one after the other, on 64-bit platforms. - Includes results of performance testing of the new second generation UDP driver (implemented completely in STREAMS instead of using an internal socket). - Includes workup of benchmark scripts for SCTP, TCP and UDP. Added a scls_show option to perform `scls -c' (see scls(1)) to show STREAMS module and driver statistics between test sample points when verbosity is set to 2 and XTI is being used. This assists with performance testing as it shows the counts accumulated to put and service routine throughout the Stream. It was used in UDP2 testing of the `strinet' package and will come in handy for the SCTP testing. _This is a public stable production grade release of the package: it deprecates previous releases. Please upgrade to the current release before reporting bugs._ As with other OpenSS7 releases, this release configures, compiles, installs and builds RPMs and DEBs for a wide range of Linux 2.4 and 2.6 RPM- and DPKG-based distributions, and can be used on production kernels without patching or recompiling the kernel. This package is publicly released under the `GNU General Public License Version 2' as well as the HP license (see LICENSE in the distribution ofro more information.) The release is available as an autoconf tarball, SRPM, DSC, and set of binary RPMs and DEBs. See the downloads page (http://www.openss7.org/download.html) for the autoconf tarballs, SRPMs and DSCs. For tarballs, SRPMs, DSCs and binary RPMs and DEBs, see the netperf package page (http://www.openss7.org/netperf_pkg.html). See http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/netperf-2.3.4/ChangeLog and http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/netperf-2.3.4/NEWS in the release for more information. Also, see the `netperf.pdf' manual in the release (also in html http://www.openss7.org/netperf_manual.html). For the news release, see `http://www.openss7.org/rel20070108_L.html'. -- Brian F. G. Bidulock [email protected] http://www.openss7.org/ _______________________________________________ Linux-streams mailing list [email protected] http://www.openss7.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-streams
