Re: iperf features
Potentially yes you could use Iperf to test the packet/second speed of a
router, but this is not the purpose of Iperf. By using a UDP stream with a
extremely high sending rate and small packet size you should be able to
send a lot of packets through the router. For instance if you have a Gb
interface then a command of:
iperf -c (machine on other side of router) -u -b 2G -l 100
would attempt to send at 2Gb per second which will not be realized on a
1Gb link and thus you will send as fast as the machine can manage. The
biggest problem with this testing method is that you often will be testing
the maximum packets/second that the test machine can handle rather than
the router. Hope that helps,
Kevin
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Steven Mugassa wrote:
> Hello ...
>
> Can iperf measure the throughput capacity of a router? i.e. maximum
> packets/second that a router can handle
>
> Also, can i manipulate the size of the packet to be sent?
>
> Thanks,
> Steven
>