Netperf is a software application that provides
network bandwidth testing between two hosts on a network. It supports
Unix domain socket
A Unix domain socket aka UDS or IPC socket ( inter-process communication socket) is a data communications endpoint for exchanging data between processes executing on the same host operating system. It is also referred to by its address family AF_U ...
s,
TCP,
SCTP
The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a computer networking communications protocol in the transport layer of the Internet protocol suite. Originally intended for Signaling System 7 (SS7) message transport in telecommunication, the p ...
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DLPI and UDP via BSD Sockets. Netperf provides a number of predefined tests e.g. to measure bulk (unidirectional) data transfer or request response performance.
Netperf was originally developed at
Hewlett Packard
The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components ...
.
See also
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Nuttcp
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Iperf
Iperf is a tool for network performance measurement and tuning. It is a Cross-platform software, cross-platform tool that can produce standardized performance measurements for any network. Iperf has Client (computing), client and Server (computin ...
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NetPIPE
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bwping
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Flowgrind
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Measuring network throughput
Throughput of a network can be measured using various tools available on different platforms. This page explains the theory behind what these tools set out to measure and the issues regarding these measurements.
Reasons for measuring throughput i ...
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Packet generation model
References
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External links
Homepage of netperf
Computer network analysis
Network performance