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FreeBSD benchmarks : iperf

A tool to measure maximum TCP and UDP bandwidth

 What is Iperf?

While tools to measure network performance, such as ttcp,
exist, most are very old and have confusing options. Iperf
was developed as a modern alternative for measuring TCP 
and UDP bandwidth performance.

Iperf is a tool to measure maximum TCP bandwidth, allowing
the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics.
Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, datagram loss.  

iperf history

v. 1.20
date: 2007/03/25 03:54:43;  author: mnag;  state: Exp;  lines: +0 -2
- Remove NO_CDROM since itīs not restricted anymore.

PR:		108544
Submitted by:	Jordan Gordeev

v. 1.19
date: 2006/12/13 13:43:41;  author: mnag;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -0
- If the network card's buffer is full, send returns -1 and sets
  errno to ENOBUFS, which causes issues with the UDP bandwidth tests.
  Check if errno != ENOBUFS after write(2).
- Bump PORTREVISION

Submitted by:	Ryan T. Dean 

v. 1.18
date: 2006/04/24 14:30:00;  author: mnag;  state: Exp;  lines: +7 -10
- Fix build when detect pthread_cancel (7.x)
- Fix configure detection of pthread_cancel on 4.x 5.x and 6.x
- portlint(1)

Notified by:	kris

v. 1.17
date: 2005/09/16 17:58:26;  author: mnag;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Update my email

Approved by: pav (mentor)

v. 1.16
date: 2005/05/21 20:09:27;  author: pav;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
- Move iperf from net to benchmarks

PR:		ports/81201
Submitted by:	Marcus Grando  (maintainer)
Repocopy by:	marcus

v. 1.15
date: 2005/05/10 12:17:48;  author: novel;  state: Exp;  lines: +5 -3
- Update to 2.0.2
- Modify uintmax_t to uint64_t

PR:		80841
Submitted by:	Marcus Grando (maintainer)

v. 1.14
date: 2005/04/07 15:00:52;  author: vs;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -1
Add mirror

PR:		ports/79347
Submitted by:	maintainer

v. 1.13
date: 2005/03/11 12:11:31;  author: flz;  state: Exp;  lines: +0 -0
- Force commit to say that maintainership change and commit were approved by
maintainer timeout and portmgr blessing.

Approved by:	pav (mentor)

v. 1.12
date: 2005/03/11 10:44:10;  author: flz;  state: Exp;  lines: +30 -13
- Update to 2.0.1.
- Add OPTIONS.

PR:		ports/76553
Submitted by:	Marcus Grando 
Approved by:	pav (mentor)

v. 1.11
date: 2003/05/17 19:39:42;  author: sumikawa;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Add 'ipv6' on CATEGORIES.

v. 1.10
date: 2003/05/16 17:22:14;  author: smace;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
Update iperf to 1.7.0.

This version also builds under ia64

From the iperf changelog:

Added bidirectional testing both simultaneously and tradeoff
Added server side statistic reporting on the client for UDP
Limits on the number of connections and locations for servers

Changes:

Fixed the IPv6 Multicast implementation
Removed the SegFault on exit by Ctrl-C for the server
Thread bug resulting in "pthread create failed" after many clients
"connect failed" on server for UDP clients when IPv6 is enabled is fixed

v. 1.9
date: 2003/03/07 06:07:47;  author: ade;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -0
Clear moonlight beckons.
Requiem mors pacem pkg-comment,
And be calm ports tree.

E Nomini Patri, E Fili, E Spiritu Sancti.

v. 1.8
date: 2003/01/20 16:34:41;  author: smace;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
Iperf 1.6.5 dropped doc/release.html.  Update Makefile.

v. 1.7
date: 2003/01/18 17:40:43;  author: smace;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
Upgrade to Iperf 1.6.5

v. 1.6
date: 2003/01/07 20:28:47;  author: smace;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -2
Cleanup Makefile with after portlint.

v. 1.5
date: 2003/01/07 16:29:17;  author: smace;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
Update to ipef-1.6.4.

v. 1.4
date: 2002/11/22 22:30:29;  author: smace;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Update maintainer

v. 1.3
date: 2002/10/18 04:14:24;  author: smace;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -2
Update iperf to version 1.6.3

v. 1.2
date: 2001/08/22 23:06:35;  author: petef;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
Change my email address to petef@FreeBSD.org for the ports I maintain.

Reviewed by:	ade

v. 1.1
date: 2001/05/27 17:42:22;  author: ijliao;  state: Exp;
add iperf
A tool to measure maximum TCP and UDP bandwidth

PR:		27462
Submitted by:	Pete Fritchman 
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