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Re: Windows UDP packet generator software?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carlos Alcantar)
Sat Dec 31 03:49:24 2011
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From: Carlos Alcantar <carlos@race.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:54:15 +0000
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+1 on iperf there is also jperf gui for the people that don't like iperf
cli.
http://code.google.com/p/xjperf/
Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member
101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / carlos@race.com / http://www.race.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Pavely <paradox@nac.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:24:19 -0500
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Windows UDP packet generator software?
If anyone needs a per-compiled iPerf.exe, no need for cygwin libraries,
lemme know.
It's a great tool!
Ryan Pavely
Director Research And Development
Net Access Corporation
http://www.nac.net/
On 12/22/2011 3:20 PM, Larry Blunk wrote:
> On 12/22/2011 02:36 PM, Sean Harlow wrote:
>> iperf might be able to do what you need and there are Windows builds
>> available, but I'm not sure if it has a mode where it's not flooding
>> the network trying to test maximum speed. Is there a reason that
>> standard ICMP pings aren't appropriate if you just want packet loss
>> info? Obviously every platform worth using has ping built in.
>> ----------
>> Sean Harlow
>> sean@seanharlow.info
>
>
> In UDP mode, iperf sends at 1 Mbps by default. You change
> the rate with the -b flag. There's an iperf-2.0.5-cygwin
> build floating around for Windows.
