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Netperf
Developer(s)HP Networking Performance Team and others
Stable release
2.6.0 / June 11, 2012 (2012-06-11)
Written inC
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeBandwidth management
Licenseunknown (includes HP copyright)
Websitehttp://www.netperf.org/netperf/

Netperf is the de-facto standard for network bandwidth testing between two hosts on a network. It supports Unix Domain Sockets, TCP, SCTP, DLPI and UDP via BSD Sockets. Netperf provides a number of predefined tests e.g. to measure bulk (unidirectional) data transfer or request response performance.

Netperf was originally deleveloped at Hewlett Packard.

See also

References

Homepage of netperf