iperf 2.0.7 Released - OpenSS7 SCTP Internet Performance Tool
Brian F. G. Bidulock
Iperf is a general purpose tool for measuring bandwidth and performance
of the Internet Protocol suite. The OpenSS7 Modified OpenSS7 IPERF
Utility package is an OpenSS7 Project release of the DAST iperf package
configured to run with OpenSS7 Linux Native Stream Control Transmission
Protocol (SCTP).
The OpenSS7 IPERF Utility package provides primarily the iperf(1) C++
Language program that acts as either an Iperf server or client for
testing connections and networking. The iperf(1) program is executed on
one host in server mode and then executed on another (or the same) host
in client mode. Characteristics of the connection or association can be
altered when formed. Reporting formats and sample intervals can also be
altered when the connection or association is formed.
This is a fork of the "Iperf" package released by the University of
Illinois modified by the OpenSS7 Project for use with OpenSS7 SCTP
(Stream Control Transmission Protocol). This OpenSS7 release of the
package is based on the Iperf-2.0.0 release from the University of
Illinois.
Modifications to the package are derived from the OpenSS7 SCTP
implementation and are released under the GNU General Public License
(GPL) Version 2. The Iperf tool itself is licensed under specific terms
by the University of Illinois. Please see LICENSES for the University of
Illinois Iperf copyright notices and licensing restrictions.
This is the OpenSS7 Project's seventh release of the University of
Illinois iperf package, modified to work with the OpenSS7 Linux Native
(Sockets) implementation of SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol
- RFC 2960). This package contains all of the necessary manual pages and
files, and configures and installs against almost any 2.4 kernel, even
production kernels.
This is the OpenSS7 Project's seventh release of the iperf package
modified for OpenSS7 SCTP. This is the package that was used to perform
the performance tests shown here <http://www.openss7.org/sctp_perf.html>.
This release is largely a maintenance release that provides support for
more distributions an architectures as well as tracking feature updates
on related packages (i.e. sctp-0.2.26).
Major features since the last public release are as follows:
- Support build on openSUSE 10.2.
- Support build on Fedora 7 with 2.6.21 kernel.
- Support build on CentOS 5.0 (RHEL5).
- Support build on Ubuntu 7.04.
- Updated to gettext 0.16.1.
- Supports build on Fedora Core 6.
- Support for recent distributions and tool chains.
This is a public stable production grade release of the package: it
deprecates previous releases. Please upgrade to the current release
before reporting bugs.
As with other OpenSS7 releases, this release configures, compiles,
installs and builds RPMs and DEBs for a wide range of Linux 2.4 RPM- and
DPKG-based distributions, and can be used on production kernels without
patching or recompiling the kernel.
This package is publicly released under the GNU Public License Version 2
as well as the University of Illinois license (see LICENSE in the
release for more information). The release is available as an autoconf
tarball, SRPM, DSC, and set of binary RPMs and DEBs. See the downloads
page <http://www.openss7.org/download.html> for the autoconf tarballs,
SRPMs and DSCs. For tarballs, SRPMs, DSCs and binary RPMs and DEBs, see
the iperf package page <http://www.openss7.org/iperf_pkg.html>.
See <http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/iperf-2.0.7/ChangeLog> and
<http://www.openss7.org/codefiles/iperf-2.0.7/NEWS> in the release for
more information. Also, see the `iperf.pdf' manual in the release, also
in html <http://www.openss7.org/iperf_manual.html>.
For the news release, see <http://www.openss7.org/rel20070624_1.html>.
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Brian F. G. Bidulock
bidu...@openss7.org
http://www.openss7.org/
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