DAST: Iperf - iperf info - fabio.marcone --at-- duet.it

[Mitch Kutzko <mitch --at-- ncsa.uiuc.edu>]

>Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:40:45 -0600
>To: fabio.marcone --at-- duet.it
>Subject: DAST: Iperf - iperf info - fabio.marcone --at-- duet.it
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>
>Contacting DAST re: Request for information about Iperf
>From: Fabio Marcone <fabio.marcone --at-- duet.it>
>
>Subject: iperf info
>
>Question/Comment:
>Hi!
>I'm an italian system administrator and I'm using iperf to measure network
>performance with traffic shaping (mode client-server tcp).
>I'm using iperf 2.0.1 (debian sarge).
>
>thanks for you tools is very useful.
>
>I would know how iperf works:
>- what protocol it use? (ftp, http, ...)
>- has this protocol fixed packet (application layer) size or not?
>- traffic between client and server is bidirectional or only client sends
>data to server?
>
>
>Very thanks,
>Fabio
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