What Does IPerf Actually Measure ?

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Subject: What Does IPerf Actually Measure ?
From: Anderson Jeff-CJA015 <jefsand --at-- motorola.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 08:44:20 -0500
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Hello Users

I looked through the web site and can't find exactly how throughput is measured, specifically at what layer ?

Is it looking at L2 throughput couting IP, UDP/TCP overheads along with Ethernet.

Or is it only couting L4 payload bytes and discounting the TCP-UDP/IP (28 - 40 octets) overheads ?

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