iperf 2.0.8 Released

Description: OpenSS7 What's New.

Approved for Immediate Release

Oct 31, 2008
OpenSS7 today announced Release 2.0.8 of the OpenSS7-modified iperf package.

(Edmonton, Alberta -- Oct 31, 2008)   OpenSS7 today announced Release 2.0.8 of the OpenSS7-modified iperf package. Iperf is a general purpose tool for measuring bandwidth and performance of the Internet Protocol suite. The OpenSS7 Modified OpenSS7 IPERF Utility package is an OpenSS7 Project release of the DAST iperf package configured to run with OpenSS7 Linux Native Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP).

The OpenSS7 IPERF Utility package provides primarily the iperf(1) C++ Language program that acts as either an Iperf server or client for testing connections and networking. The iperf(1) program is executed on one host in server mode and then executed on another (or the same) host in client mode. Characteristics of the connection or association can be altered when formed. Reporting formats and sample intervals can also be altered when the connection or association is formed.

This is a fork of the "Iperf" package released by the University of Illinois modified by the OpenSS7 Project for use with OpenSS7 SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol). This OpenSS7 release of the package is based on the Iperf-2.0.0 release from the University of Illinois.

Modifications to the package are derived from the OpenSS7 SCTP implementation and are released under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) Version 3. The Iperf tool itself is licensed under specific terms by the University of Illinois. Please see LICENSES for the University of Illinois Iperf copyright notices and licensing restrictions.

This is the OpenSS7 Project's eigth release of the University of Illinois iperf package, modified to work with the OpenSS7 Linux Native (Sockets) implementation of SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol - RFC 2960). This package contains all of the necessary manual pages and files, and configures and installs against almost any 2.4 kernel, even production kernels.

This is the OpenSS7 Project's eigth release of the iperf package modified for OpenSS7 SCTP. This is the package that was used to perform the performance tests shown here.

This release is largely a maintenance release that provides support for more distributions an architectures as well as tracking feature updates on related packages (i.e. sctp-0.2.27).

Major features since the last public release are as follows:

• Minor documentation corrections.
• License upgrade to AGPL Version 3.
• Support for flex 2.5.33 in maintainer mode.
• Ability to strap out major documentation build and installation primarily for embedded targets.
• Improvements to common build process for embedded and cross-compile targets.
• Updated tool chain to m4-1.4.12, autoconf-2.63 and texinfo-4.13.
• Conversion of RPM spec files to common approach for major subpackages.
• Updated references database for manual pages and roff documents.
• Build system now builds yum(8) repositories for RPMs and apt-get(8) repositories for DEBs. Installation documentation has been updated to include details of repository install sourcesref.
• Added MODULE_VERSION to all modules and drivers.

This is a public stable production grade release of the package: it deprecates previous releases. Please upgrade to the current release before reporting bugs.

As with other OpenSS7 releases, this release configures, compiles, installs and builds RPMs and DEBs for a wide range of Linux 2.4 RPM- and DPKG-based distributions, and can be used on production kernels without patching or recompiling the kernel.

This package is publicly released under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) Version 3. as well as the University of Illinois license (see LICENSE in the release for more information). The release is available as an autoconf tarball, SRPM, DSC, and set of binary RPMs and DEBs. See the downloads page for the autoconf tarballs, SRPMs and DSCs. See the iperf package page for tarballs, SRPMs, DSCs, and binary RPMs and DEBs.

See ChangeLog and NEWS in the release, or Release Notes in the manual, for more information. Also, see the iperf.pdf manual in the release (also in html).

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