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Netperf is a serious networking performance evaluation tool being
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distributed under BSD-1-clause by HP's Information Networks Division.
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Testing is done using a pair of programs: `netserver' (the server) and
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`netperf' (the measurement tool).
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Netperf allows control over a large number of test `variables'.
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Some of these are:
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* specification of desired confidence levels for the tests
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Netperf will warn the user if these levels were not achieved.
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* filling send buffers with specified data (to beat compression schemes)
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* specification of send/receive buffer alignments and data offsets
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* requesting CPU utilization and service demand calculations
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* specification of sizes of data to send
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Netperf can be used for measuring stream performance as well as
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round-trip performance.
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