Package netperf-2.3.5 was released 2007-03-15.

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 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 in the release for the Hewlett-Packard Netperf copyright
notices and licensing restrictions.  This is the fifth full release of
the OpenSS7 NETPERF Utility package.  This release is a stable,
production grade release for Linux Fast-STREAMS and is part of the
OpenSS7 Master Package (openss7-0.9.2.E).

This release is largely a maintenance release that provides support for
more distributions an architectures as well as tracking feature updates
on related packages.

Major features since the last public release are as follows:

 - Support for autoconf 2.61, automake 1.10 and gettext 0.16.

 - Support for Ubuntu 6.10 distribution and bug fixes for i386 kernels.

 - The package now looks for other subpackages with a version number as
   unpacked by separate tarball.

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-2.3.5/ChangeLog and
http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/netperf-2.3.5/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/rel20070315_L.html'.

--
Brian F. G. Bidulock
[email protected]
http://www.openss7.org/
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