Difference between revisions of "IPerf Network Testing"

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Iperf was orginally developed by NLANR/DAST as a modern alternative for measuring maximum TCP and UDP bandwidth performance. Iperf allows the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, datagram loss.
 
Iperf was orginally developed by NLANR/DAST as a modern alternative for measuring maximum TCP and UDP bandwidth performance. Iperf allows the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, datagram loss.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iperf
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf/
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf/files/jperf/
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http://code.google.com/p/xjperf/
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Latest Version Notes:
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iperf - iperf.exe and html docs (iperf version 2.0.5)
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jperf - java gui for iperf (jperf GUI version 2.0.2 & iperf 1.7.0)
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kperf_setup.exe - includes (jperf GUI version 1.0 & iperf 2.0.2). Installed progam (includes start menu items) into c:\program files\iperf-2.0.2\
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Tests
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For WANs where compression is used use a non-compressible test file such as a large .jpg.
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14 TCP Connections 1 minute
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iperf -c <server ip> -P 14 -i 1 -p 5001 -l 8K -f m -t 60 -L 5001 -F C:\testfile
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14 UDP Connections 1 Mbit streams 1 minute
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iperf -c <server ip> -u -P 14 -i 1 -p 5001 -l 1470 -f m -b 1M -t 60 -L 5001 -T 1 -F C:\testfile

Revision as of 05:40, 7 March 2012


Iperf was orginally developed by NLANR/DAST as a modern alternative for measuring maximum TCP and UDP bandwidth performance. Iperf allows the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, datagram loss.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iperf http://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf/files/jperf/ http://code.google.com/p/xjperf/

Latest Version Notes: iperf - iperf.exe and html docs (iperf version 2.0.5) jperf - java gui for iperf (jperf GUI version 2.0.2 & iperf 1.7.0) kperf_setup.exe - includes (jperf GUI version 1.0 & iperf 2.0.2). Installed progam (includes start menu items) into c:\program files\iperf-2.0.2\

Tests For WANs where compression is used use a non-compressible test file such as a large .jpg.

14 TCP Connections 1 minute

iperf -c <server ip> -P 14 -i 1 -p 5001 -l 8K -f m -t 60 -L 5001 -F C:\testfile 

14 UDP Connections 1 Mbit streams 1 minute

iperf -c <server ip> -u -P 14 -i 1 -p 5001 -l 1470 -f m -b 1M -t 60 -L 5001 -T 1 -F C:\testfile