Iperf
Iperf is a tool to measure IP bandwidth using UDP or TCP. It allows for tuning various parameters, and reports bandwidth, delay jitter, and packet loss. It supports IPv6 and multicast.
| Tags | Other/Nonlisted Topic Internet |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | OS Independent Unix Windows Windows POSIX |
| Implementation | C++ |
Recent releases
- 14 Nov 2008 16:24
Changes: Version 2.0.4 allows the selection of the TCP congestion control algorithm under Linux, adds a manpage, and fixes some bugs.
- 28 Jul 2003 14:23
Changes: This release runs Iperf in bidirectional mode, removes the STDLIB requirement for Iperf, and adds client reporting of server-side statistics in UDP tests.
- 24 Oct 2002 03:02
Changes: This version includes better pthreads detection in the configure script, there is no need to explicity bind a IPv6 address on the server, and it binds to all IPv6 addresses when -V is used including IPv4 mapped addresses in some OSes. There is better support for printing IPv6 addresses, and support for setting the TOS field via IP_TOS and disabling the Nagle algorithm in supporting OSes. There was a clean up of stale or outdated files, debug messages for getaddrinfo were removed, and there is now better support for various std libraries.
- 18 Jun 2002 19:08
Changes: This release supports IPv6, using representative streams to measure bandwidth, and running as a Win32 service.
