Netperf

Netperf is a software application that provides network bandwidth testing between two hosts on a network. It supports Unix domain sockets, TCP, SCTP, DLPI and UDP via BSD Sockets.^[1] Netperf provides a number of predefined tests e.g. to measure bulk (unidirectional) data transfer or request response performance.

Netperf

Original author(s)	Rick Jones
Developer(s)	HP Networking Performance Team and others
Stable release	2.7.0 / July 20, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-07-20)
Repository	github.com/HewlettPackard/netperf
Written in	C
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Bandwidth management
License	MIT
Website	hewlettpackard.github.io/netperf/

A particular feature of Netperf is that it runs each test multiple times and reports not only the results but also reports the Confidence Interval. It can test both TCP and UDP. It was written in C and works on most UNIX variants, including BSD, System V, Linux, and MacOS.

Netperf was originally developed by Rick Jones at Hewlett Packard in Cupertino, CA.^[2]

See also

• Nuttcp
• Iperf
• NetPIPE
• bwping
• Flowgrind
• Measuring network throughput
• Packet generation model