What is best TCP throughput benchmarking tool?

[Michael Tuexen]

> On 19. Oct 2018, at 21:27, Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> I need to benchmark different endpoint (not router) network performance
> with different encapsulations (if_gre, if_gif) and with/without IPsec
> (including if_ipsec).
> 
> What is suitable traffic generator/receiver for me?
> 
> I'm trying to use benchmarks/iperf3, but it consumes questionable
> amount of CPU in several cases and maybe benchmark becomes limited by
> user-side CPU consuming, which is bad.
> 
> I've tried "benchmarks/netperf" — it hangs with non-default window size.
> 
> I've tried "benchmarks/netperfmeter" — it doesn't work without SCTP in
> kernel.
> 
> Please note, that I'm testing endpoint, not a router, so netmap-based
> packet generators & receivers is no use for me, unfortunately.
You might want to have a look at benchmarks/uperf. It allows you to
configure (using .xml scripts) the traffic pattern you are interested
in.

Best regards
Michael
> 
> -- 
> // Lev Serebryakov
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