DAST: Iperf - Iperf in daemon mode - matt --at-- looseconnection.com
>Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:20:37 -0600
>To: matt --at-- looseconnection.com
>Subject: DAST: Iperf - Iperf in daemon mode - matt --at-- looseconnection.com
>
>
>Contacting DAST re: Bug report about Iperf
>From: Matt Ryan <matt --at-- looseconnection.com>
>
>Subject: Iperf in daemon mode
>
>Question/Comment:
>Hi,
>
>I am having some trouble running iperf as a daemon on FreeBSD.
>I am running iperf-1.7.0 on FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE.
>
>when running in daemon mode:
>
>iperf -s -D > /var/log/iperflog.txt
>
>
>The logfile shows:
>
>utility-sh# cat /var/log/iperflog.txt
>------------------------------------------------------------
>Server listening on TCP port 5001
>TCP window size: 56.0 KByte (default)
>------------------------------------------------------------
>Running Iperf Server as a daemon
>The Iperf daemon process ID : 453
>
>and all seems well however when running tests from a client, the tests
never complete. I have to kill the server (twice) and then I get this
output from the client.
>
>
>
>write failed: Broken pipe
>read on server close failed: Connection reset by peer
>[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
>[ 5] 0.0-61.3 sec 88.0 KBytes 11.8 Kbits/sec
>
>
>Testing the same link interactively shows 6Mb/s which is confirmed by
other software.
>
>Both client and server are running FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE, I have this
problem with either machine running in daemon mode.
>
>iperf runs fine in all other respects.
>
>Am I doing something daft? Has this been reported before?
>
>
>Thanks for your help
>
>
>
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