I am not sure iperf is the thing to use here. You probably should measure the actual traffic in realtime vs generate a bunch of test traffic at a different time and guess that will be the performance at the time of the real traffic.
Bob -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 5:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Iperf-users] Understanding Iperf I have logging devices which need to use iperf to test to their home base server. I need a good layman understanding of Iperf testing. I don't want a highly technical breakdown of Iperf, but something which is easily understood by practically anyone. I ask this because searching the net, there seems to be lots of confusion about different results from client and server side. There are also mentions of being able to do a two way test but I have yet to find a way of doing that. Would a two way test give me the results of both the client and the server? Would that give me a better understanding of uploads and downloads speeds? The server side is iperf-2.0.5-11 The client side for testing is openwrt running iperf version 2.0.5 (08 Jul 2010) single threaded I'm at a loss... help! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Iperf-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/iperf-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Iperf-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/iperf-users
