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authorzuntum <zuntum>2001-10-31 22:52:58 +0000
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+Netperf is a serious networking performance evaluation tool being
+distributed under GPL by HP's Information Networks Division.
+Testing is done using a pair of programs: `netserver' (the server) and
+`netperf' (the measurement tool).
+
+Netperf allows control over a large number of test `variables'.
+Some of these are:
+
+ * specification of desired confidence levels for the tests
+ Netperf will warn the user if these levels were not achieved.
+ * filling send buffers with specified data (to beat compression
+ schemes)
+ * specification of send/recieve buffer alignments and data offsets
+ * requesting cpu utilization and service demand calculations
+ * specification of sizes of data to send
+
+Netperf can be used for measuring stream performance as well as
+round-trip performance.
+
+This port of netperf has been configured to support:
+
+ TCP and UDP via BSD sockets
+ Unix domain sockets