Bob, Thanks, we'd be more than happy to test it out. Just let me know and I'll get my engineering group to check it out.
Craig Reeves "Bridging Communications" 3520 Lorna Ridge Drive Hoover, AL 35216 v.(205) 829-1800 f. (205) 536-6333 c. (205) 332-5916 On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 1:21 PM Bob McMahon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Craig, > > Any reason you need iperf 3 for this and can't use iperf 2.0.14? > > We are in the process of early field test for iperf 2.0.14. > <https://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf2/> This is probably an > experimental feature that could be added last minute. We'd need you to > test if willing. Our goal is to release 2.0.14 early 2021. > > We're out of short options and would need to use long options. Maybe > something like > > --sweep-range=1m,100m, 1m (start, final, step size) defaults to 1m,10m,1m > with just --sweep-range > --sweep-steptime 1.5 (units of seconds) defaults to 1 second if > --sweep-range and no --sweep-steptime > > Note that --sweep-range has optional arguments (per the =) and > sweep-steptime has a mandatory argument (if used.) > > All, do comment on more intuitive command line options. > > Bob > > > > Bob > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 8:12 AM Craig Reeves <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> First, many thanks for putting this tool together and sharing it. It has >> proved invaluable over the years when dealing with ISPs. >> >> That being said, we regularly encounter ISPs that don't think their >> network has issues. Most of the time we can pinpoint to a switch or >> connection that is over saturated. >> >> I would love to see a feature that allowed us to set a starting >> throughput, incremental step up/down throughput, and interval. This would >> help find the point at which issues begin. Here is the idea: >> >> iperf3 -c 192.168.1.100 -bt 1M -et 10M -st 10s -t 100 -u >> >> -bt = beginning throughput >> -et = ending throughput >> -st = step up/down time >> >> The thinking is that iperf3 would start a test (UDP or TCP) at 1Mb/s >> throughput, and then ramp up in 1Mb/s steps ever 10 seconds. >> >> This eliminates the need to do individual runs with different settings. >> >> Thank you, >> >> Craig Reeves >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Iperf-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/iperf-users >> >
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