Re: [Iperf-users] maximum allowed UDP bandwidth setting

2019-10-03 Thread Bob McMahon via Iperf-users
>> Consider also that the nature of iperf is to saturate the available channel. This isn't the case anymore for iperf 2.0.13 and greater. Saturating the channel has lots of negative effects with respect to testing per buffer bloat. 2.0.13 and greater has many features to support unsaturated chan

Re: [Iperf-users] maximum allowed UDP bandwidth setting

2019-10-03 Thread Bob McMahon via Iperf-users
I can't speak for iperf 3 but iperf 2.0.13 supports -b on the server for both TCP and UDP. It does this by running a simplified token bucket on the reads(). With that said, there is no way for a server to control the transmit rate of a iperf client running UDP because UDP is connectionless. TCP is

Re: [Iperf-users] maximum allowed UDP bandwidth setting

2019-10-03 Thread Sandro Bureca
Try to solve this need at network level by configuring QOS or COS or interface speed. That said, flooding the network with udp packets is possible even without an iperf server on your side. Consider also that the nature of iperf is to saturate the available channel. Sandro Il gio 3 ott 2019, 13:41