Re: [gentoo-user] Network perf tool

2012-10-25 Thread Robert David
Hi Patric, what about iperf? Robert. On Wednesday 24 of October 2012 20:36:54 Petric Frank wrote: Hello, this is not exactly an Gentoo question - but i don't now where to ask otherwise. Is there a tool for (Gentoo-)Linux to do network performance tests as defined in RFC 2544 ? This

Re: [gentoo-user] Network perf tool

2012-10-25 Thread Ryan Decker
I second iperf for network performance testing I've used it countless times, and does just what it claims to do. Ryan On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Robert David robert.david.pub...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Patric, what about iperf? Robert. On Wednesday 24 of October 2012 20:36:54

Re: [gentoo-user] Network perf tool

2012-10-25 Thread Kfir Lavi
I have wrote a testbed for TCP testing [1]. One of the files is an iperf library [2]. If you want to run iperf automatically, you can look at my code and maybe use it. Kfir [1] https://github.com/kfirlavi/Amalia [2] https://github.com/kfirlavi/Amalia/blob/master/trunk/testbed/lib/iperf On Thu,

Re: [gentoo-user] Network perf tool

2012-10-25 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, iperf is a good tool, but ... Fr example the RFC 2544 throughput test does not allow any failed/missing/corrupted packed during the testing time. In this case the data speed is to be reduced and the test to be executed again. Also a throughput test is only one part of the RFC 2544.

[gentoo-user] Network perf tool

2012-10-24 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, this is not exactly an Gentoo question - but i don't now where to ask otherwise. Is there a tool for (Gentoo-)Linux to do network performance tests as defined in RFC 2544 ? This will run on an Gentoo host having at least 2 network interfaces to be connected to the device under test.