Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 10:22:05 +0330 From: takCoder <tak.official@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Throughput test with iperf... Message-ID: <CAPkyVLyf3Eds5MMAEk%2ByoE11CAh5Yet4yJMMM3ru4TMsZqtesg@mail.gmail.com>
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hi everyone, this might be a bit off-topic but i am really confused and in need of your helps.. :( i need to understand what exactly iperf does while testing network throughput? i'm trying to run a throughput+frame loss test on a router using iperf, and i am really confused with the definitions given for throughput and packet-loss and iperf output.. as i have seen through my searches, throughput is the maximum transfer rate at which we have no packet loss, so i thought i have to rerun iperf for different transfer rate(in udp test), so i reach maximun rate while having no drops... but i have seen test videos in which they ran iperf once, with maximum bandwidth of the line, and just used the reported throughput and packet loss as the required result! what's on? does iperf calculate the throughput independent from packet-loss? and why is it reporting it named as bandwidth?? thank you all.. Kind regards, takcoder
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