netperf 2.3.7 Released

Description: OpenSS7 What's New.

Approved for Immediate Release

Oct 31, 2008
OpenSS7 today announced Release 2.3.7 of the OpenSS7-modified netperf package.

(Edmonton, Alberta -- Oct 31, 2008)   OpenSS7 today announced Release 2.3.7 of the OpenSS7-modified netperf package. Netperf is a general purpose tool for benchmarking bandwidth and performance of the Internet Protocol suite. The OpenSS7 Modified OpenSS7 NETPERF Utility package is an OpenSS7 Project release of the of the Hewlett-Packard netperf package configured to run with OpenSS7 STREAMS SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) and the OpenSS7 STREAMS XNS, XTI/TLI and INET packages.

The OpenSS7 NETPERF Utility package provide primarily the netperf(1) and netserver(8), C Language programs that act as Netperf client or server for testing connections and networking. The netserver(8) program is executed on one host acting as a server, and then netperf(1) is executed on another (or the same) host acting 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. Users executing netperf(1) do not need to have shell access to the netserver(8) host.

This is a fork of the Netperf package released by Hewlett-Packard modified by the OpenSS7 Project for use with OpenSS7 STREAMS XNS, XTI/TLI, INET and SCTP packages. This OpenSS7 release of the package is based on the Netperf-2.3 release from Hewlett-Packard.

Modifications to the package are derived from the OpenSS7 STREAMS XNS, XTI/TLI, INET and SCTP implementations and are release under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) Version 3. The Netperf tool itself is licensed under specific terms by Hewlett-Packard. Please see file LICENSES in the release for the Hewlett-Packard Netperf copyright notices and licensing restrictions. This is the seventh full release of the OpenSS7 NETPERF Utility package. This release is a stable, production grade release for Linux Fast-STREAMS and is part of the OpenSS7 Master Package (openss7-0.9.2.F).

This release is largely a maintenance release that provides support for more distributions an architectures as well as tracking feature updates on related packages.

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(1) 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.
• Fixed long_options termination error.
• Added -I option to SCTP tests to permit the addresses to bind to for both the local netperf(1) client and remote netserver(8) server. This permits addresses to be excluded from the bind for testing in single-homed and limited multi-homed configurations.
• Updated documentation for the bind feature.

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 and 2.6 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. (see LICENSE in the distribution 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 netperf 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 netperf.pdf manual in the release (also in html).

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