network perf : em driver ?

Ivan Voras ivoras at fer.hr
Fri Jan 12 16:15:12 PST 2007


R. B. Riddick wrote:
> --- Ivan Voras <ivoras at fer.hr> wrote:

>> I've found iperf to be more useful.
>>
> Soso... Was it slower? Or what?

List of options for tcpblast:

> tcpblast
usage: tcpblast [-4] [-6] destination nblkocks
blocksize: 1024 bytes 0

List of options for iperf:

> iperf --help
Usage: iperf [-s|-c host] [options]
       iperf [-h|--help] [-v|--version]

Client/Server:
  -f, --format    [kmKM]   format to report: Kbits, Mbits, KBytes, MBytes
  -i, --interval  #        seconds between periodic bandwidth reports
  -l, --len       #[KM]    length of buffer to read or write (default 8 KB)
  -m, --print_mss          print TCP maximum segment size (MTU - TCP/IP
header)
  -p, --port      #        server port to listen on/connect to
  -u, --udp                use UDP rather than TCP
  -w, --window    #[KM]    TCP window size (socket buffer size)
  -B, --bind      <host>   bind to <host>, an interface or multicast address
  -C, --compatibility      for use with older versions does not sent
extra msgs
  -M, --mss       #        set TCP maximum segment size (MTU - 40 bytes)
  -N, --nodelay            set TCP no delay, disabling Nagle's Algorithm
  -V, --IPv6Version        Set the domain to IPv6

Server specific:
  -s, --server             run in server mode
  -U, --single_udp         run in single threaded UDP mode
  -D, --daemon             run the server as a daemon

Client specific:
  -b, --bandwidth #[KM]    for UDP, bandwidth to send at in bits/sec
                           (default 1 Mbit/sec, implies -u)
  -c, --client    <host>   run in client mode, connecting to <host>
  -d, --dualtest           Do a bidirectional test simultaneously
  -n, --num       #[KM]    number of bytes to transmit (instead of -t)
  -r, --tradeoff           Do a bidirectional test individually
  -t, --time      #        time in seconds to transmit for (default 10 secs)
  -F, --fileinput <name>   input the data to be transmitted from a file
  -I, --stdin              input the data to be transmitted from stdin
  -L, --listenport #       port to recieve bidirectional tests back on
  -P, --parallel  #        number of parallel client threads to run
  -T, --ttl       #        time-to-live, for multicast (default 1)

Miscellaneous:
  -h, --help               print this message and quit
  -v, --version            print version information and quit

iperf's more useful to me because it can do more and has more tunables.
Some of the more useful ones are twiddling Nagle's algorithm and setting
TCP window size.

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