Package: iperf Version: iperf_2.0.4-3 When iperf encounters a fatal error when connecting to a port, such as the port being closed on the remote side, it simply warns; since this is an unrecoverable error, it should die.
$ iperf -v iperf version 2.0.4+svnr43 (7 Apr 2008) pthreads $ iperf -c 127.0.0.1 connect failed: Connection refused write1 failed: Broken pipe write2 failed: Broken pipe ------------------------------------------------------------ Client connecting to 127.0.0.1, TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 3] local 0.0.0.0 port 37718 connected with 127.0.0.1 port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 3] 0.0- 0.0 sec 0.00 Bytes 0.00 bits/sec This is with the iperf_2.0.4-3_i386.deb package. The attached patch resolves the issue.
iperf-die-on-connect-fail.patch
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