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

[Marcelo Ricardo Leitner]

On 12-03-2015 17:39, Digimer wrote:
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> On 12/03/15 04:29 PM, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
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>> 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?
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>> Thanks!
>>
>> Gilbert
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> I've used iperf a lot successfully. I have an RPM for EL6 on my repo here:
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> 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.
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> https://alteeve.ca/an-repo/el6/SRPMS/iperf-2.0.5-11.el6.anvil.src.rpm

+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