NAME¶

netstress - utility designed to stress and benchmark network activity

SYNOPSIS¶

netstress -m[NAME] | --master=[NAME] [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION¶

Client/server utility designed to stress & benchmark network activity of a given ethernet device or path using simulated (random) real world data and packet sizes instead of fixed data and packet sizes.

Easily command line usage with random packets sizes and random data for read, write, or read & write (default) testing and reporting benchmark results from the ethernet device.

OPTIONS¶

-m[NAME], --master[=NAME]

This instance is the master

-s[NAME], --slave[=NAME]

This instance is the slave

-h, --host nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn

Use this host or IP address

-p, --port nnn

Use this port (default=5678)

--seed, -S nnn

Use this random number seed (master only)

-c, --ctime

Report current time (default reports elapsed time)

-n, --nsec nnn

Report every nnn seconds (default=5)

-N, --nrep nnn

Benchmark every nnn reports (default=3)

-b, --bytes

Benchmark using bytes (default is bits)

-M, --mps

Benchmark using mbytes/sec or mbits/sec (default)

-K, --kps

Benchmark using kbytes/sec or kbits/sec

-B, --bps

Benchmark using bytes/sec or bits/sec

-w, --mwo

Only test master write / slave read

-r, --mro

Only test master read / slave write

-R, --realrandom

Do real random test (not pseudo random)

-f, --fast

Run Fast (no checking, no real_random)

-v, --verbosity

Enable verbosity (multiples increase level)

-d, --debug

Enable debugging (multiples increase level)

-?, --help

Give this information

AUTHOR¶

The NETSTRESS was written by Jim Gleason <jimgleason@users.sf.net>, Avocent Corp. and Helius, Inc.

This manual page was written by Giovani Augusto Ferreira <giovani@riseup.net> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).