[CentOS] Network throughput testing software available for CentOS/Linux

Fri Mar 13 08:02:18 UTC 2015
Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org>

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On 13/03/15 01:42, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
> On 12-03-2015 17:39, Digimer wrote:
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>> On 12/03/15 04:29 PM, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> 
>>> A network engineer buddy of mine brought up for discussion with
>>> me that he'd like to do some throughput testing, but he's new
>>> to Linux/RedHat. Is there any software I can recommend to him
>>> that any of you find above par for CentOS 6/7?
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>> Gilbert
>> 
>> I've used iperf a lot successfully. I have an RPM for EL6 on my
>> repo here:
>> 
>> https://alteeve.ca/an-repo/el6/RPMS/x86_64/iperf-2.0.5-11.el6.anvil.x86_64.rpm
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>>
>> 
The source is there, and I would be surprised if it didn't build
>> easily on EL7.
>> 
>> https://alteeve.ca/an-repo/el6/SRPMS/iperf-2.0.5-11.el6.anvil.src.rpm
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>> 
> +1 for iperf, and it's available on EPEL also 
> https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/ EPEL6 has iperf and
> iperf3 while EPEL7 has just iperf3.
> 
> netperf is also very good, but it's more complex to use and I'm not
>  aware of packages for it.
> 
> Marcelo
> 

I used iperf quite a lot in the past and then switched to iperf3,
which I also built for the centos infra repo and packages are on
koji/cbs : http://cbs.centos.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=497
But those are equals to the one[s] in EPEL so grab those from where
you want :-)

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