Re: [Iperf-users] Iperf client sends out less UDP traffic than determined with "-b" flag

2014-09-26 Thread Martin T
that affects tx rate reporting. > > Bob > -----Original Message- > From: Martin T [mailto:m4rtn...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 4:10 PM > To: Bob (Robert) McMahon > Cc: Marc Herbert; Andrew Gallatin; iperf-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Ipe

Re: [Iperf-users] Iperf client sends out less UDP traffic than determined with "-b" flag

2014-09-23 Thread Martin T
lso, in these cases, the client will > include the packet in the transmit rate calculation because the kernel did > accept the packet even though the ultimate transmit failed. > > Bob > -Original Message- > From: Martin T [mailto:m4rtn...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, Sept

Re: [Iperf-users] Iperf client sends out less UDP traffic than determined with "-b" flag

2014-09-22 Thread Martin T
ob (Robert) McMahon wrote: > Hi Martin, > > Yes on the summing of the return values to get the transmit rate. > > Bob > -Original Message- > From: Martin T [mailto:m4rtn...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2014 1:31 PM > To: Marc Herbert; B

Re: [Iperf-users] Iperf client sends out less UDP traffic than determined with "-b" flag

2014-09-21 Thread Martin T
r of write() per seconds. > There is a "physical" limit caused by either the CPU, or memory bandwidth, > or scheduling, etc. What is the maximum UDP sending rate you ever saw > reported on this specific hardware and operating system? > > As already suggested on this lis

Re: [Iperf-users] Iperf client sends out less UDP traffic than determined with "-b" flag

2014-09-18 Thread Martin T
14, Marc Herbert wrote: > Martin, > > What makes you think iperf counts local packet losses differently from > network packet losses? > > Cheers, > > Marc > > 2014-09-18 8:50 GMT+01:00 Martin T : > >> Andrew, >> >> I'll rephrase my question whic

Re: [Iperf-users] Iperf client sends out less UDP traffic than determined with "-b" flag

2014-09-18 Thread Martin T
don't get an error, which is what benchmarks > do. > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Andrew Gallatin > wrote: > >> There is no way to know. UDP is lossy, after all. >> >> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Martin T wrote: >> >>> Andrew, >&g

Re: [Iperf-users] Iperf client sends out less UDP traffic than determined with "-b" flag

2014-09-17 Thread Martin T
ode, it looked like it > ignores NET_SOFTERROR returns & retries.It would be nice if it reported > the amount of ENOBUF errors it received like netperf does.. > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Martin T wrote: > >> Andrew, Bob, >> >> did I understand you co

Re: [Iperf-users] Iperf client sends out less UDP traffic than determined with "-b" flag

2014-09-17 Thread Martin T
le12) : iperf > -s -w 7350000 -l 1470 -u -i 0.1 -fb -p 60001 > 20:45:09 HNDLR udp-tx Close actions for event handler > (43602lx1,file13) > 20:45:09 INFO udp-tx Closed : (43602lx1,file13) > > Bob > -Original Message- > From: Bob (Robert) McMahon > Se

Re: [Iperf-users] Iperf client sends out less UDP traffic than determined with "-b" flag

2014-09-10 Thread Martin T
CVERR on the sending socket(s)? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Bob >> >> *From:* Andrew Gallatin [mailto:galla...@gmail.com] >> *Sent:* Monday, September 08, 2014 6:53 AM >> *To:* Martin T >> *Cc:* iperf-users >> *Subject:* Re

Re: [Iperf-users] Iperf client sends out less UDP traffic than determined with "-b" flag

2014-09-08 Thread Martin T
te: > AFAIK iperf is using the regular BSD socket API (discard this message > if it does not). The BSP API provides very limited information but on > the other hand it makes sure iperf numbers are exactly the numbers any > application would get. Continued below. > > 2014-09-06 13:06

Re: [Iperf-users] Iperf client sends out less UDP traffic than determined with "-b" flag

2014-09-06 Thread Martin T
f.user/202 >> >> I remember seeing a few others across the ages.... Use various archives / >> search engines / search keywords? >> >> >> >> 2014-08-22 9:20 GMT+01:00 Martin T : >> >>> Thanks for the reply! I'll check the receiving side. Could

[Iperf-users] How does Iperf 2.x client detect the amount of traffic it has sent?

2014-08-28 Thread Martin T
Hi, if one executes for example "iperf -c 178.62.60.141 -fm -b 100m -u -t 30 -i 10", then after each 10 second interval Iperf client prints out the amount of data it has transferred in mebibytes: root@vserver:~# iperf -c 178.62.60.141 -fm -b 100m -u -t 30 -i 10 WARNING: option -b implies udp test

Re: [Iperf-users] Iperf client 2.0.5 shows unrealistic bandwidth results if Iperf server is unreachable

2014-08-28 Thread Martin T
0.5 -u and show the results from the server? > > Bob > From: Metod Kozelj [mailto:metod.koz...@lugos.si] > Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2014 11:45 PM > To: Bob (Robert) McMahon; Martin T > Cc: iperf-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Iperf-users] Iperf client 2.0.5 shows unr

Re: [Iperf-users] How does Iperf server detect that the client has stopped transmitting and it should send the server report?

2014-08-25 Thread Martin T
just negated > if ( reportstruct->packetID < 0 ) { > reportstruct->packetID = -reportstruct->packetID; > currLen = -1; > } > > Bob > -Original Message- > From: Bob (Robert) McMahon > Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 10:11 AM > To: 'Martin T'; iperf-u

Re: [Iperf-users] Iperf client 2.0.5 shows unrealistic bandwidth results if Iperf server is unreachable

2014-08-22 Thread Martin T
> The report shall report that the receiver did not see the generated > packets. > Sandro > > > On 22 August 2014 11:03, Martin T wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> please see the full output below: >> >> root@vserver:~# iperf -c 10.10.10.1 -fm -t 600 -i60 -u

[Iperf-users] How does Iperf server detect that the client has stopped transmitting and it should send the server report?

2014-08-22 Thread Martin T
Hi, if I execute "iperf -c 10.10.10.1 -fm -t 10 -u -b 50m", then am I correct that the last datagram sent by the Iperf client includes a special pattern which is an indication for Iperf server to send the server report? First bytes of the last datagram should be like ff:ff:fc:ac:53:f6:f1:57:00:04:

Re: [Iperf-users] Iperf client 2.0.5 shows unrealistic bandwidth results if Iperf server is unreachable

2014-08-22 Thread Martin T
H)-2),oct(115),10);' > -- echo 16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlb xq | dc > > -- > > BOFH excuse #299: > > The data on your hard drive is out of balance. > > > > Martin T je d

Re: [Iperf-users] Iperf client sends out less UDP traffic than determined with "-b" flag

2014-08-22 Thread Martin T
Thanks for the reply! I'll check the receiving side. Could you please point me to an article/discussion describing the blocking- and non-blocking NIC drivers? I didn't find it from iperf-users mailing list.. regards, Martin On 8/21/14, Metod Kozelj wrote: > Hi, > > > Ma

Re: [Iperf-users] Iperf client 2.0.5 shows unrealistic bandwidth results if Iperf server is unreachable

2014-08-21 Thread Martin T
Metod, but shouldn't the Iperf client send out traffic at 500Mbps as I had "-b 500m" specified? In my example is prints unrealistic bandwidth(~60Gbps) results. regards, Martin On 8/21/14, Metod Kozelj wrote: > Hi, > > Martin T je dne 21/08/14 15:12 napisal-a: &

Re: [Iperf-users] transfered data and bandwidth in Iperf client output do not match

2014-08-21 Thread Martin T
I see, thanks! regards, Martin On 8/21/14, Metod Kozelj wrote: > Hi, > > Martin T je dne 21/08/14 14:17 napisal-a: >> How did Iperf calculate, that it sent 71.5 MBytes? I mean it says it >> has sent 51021 datagrams and one datagram is 1470B so I should have >> sent 7

[Iperf-users] Iperf client sends out less UDP traffic than determined with "-b" flag

2014-08-21 Thread Martin T
Hi, if I executed "iperf -c 10.10.10.1 -fm -t 600 -i 60 -u -b 500m" in a virtual-machine with GigE vNIC, then Iperf client(version 2.0.5) under Debian sent traffic at 120Mbps during all the intervals. If I replaced the OS in virtual-server with CentOS, the same Iperf release with the same command

[Iperf-users] Iperf client 2.0.5 shows unrealistic bandwidth results if Iperf server is unreachable

2014-08-21 Thread Martin T
Hi, if I execute "iperf -c 10.10.10.1 -fm -t 600 -i 60 -u -b 500m" and 10.10.10.1 is behind the firewall so that Iperf client is not able to reach it, then I will see following results printed by Iperf client: [ ID] IntervalTransfer Bandwidth [ 3] 0.0 - 60

[Iperf-users] transfered data and bandwidth in Iperf client output do not match

2014-08-21 Thread Martin T
Hi, after an Iperf test, I got following results: [root@ ~]# iperf -c 192.168.2.1 -u -fm -t60 -d -b 10m Server listening on UDP port 5001 Receiving 1470 byte datagrams UDP buffer size: 0.04 MByte (default) --

Re: [Iperf-users] Iperf client does not reach Iperf server on the same broadcast domain

2012-12-11 Thread Martin T
your case? > > http://www.embedded-bits.co.uk/2008/multiple-network-gotcha/ > > > 2012/12/9 Martin T : >> Hello, >> >> I have a following simple network topology consisting of two laptops >> and one L2 switch facing with trunk ports to laptops: >> >>

[Iperf-users] Iperf client does not reach Iperf server on the same broadcast domain

2012-12-09 Thread Martin T
Hello, I have a following simple network topology consisting of two laptops and one L2 switch facing with trunk ports to laptops: T60[eth0] <-> switch <-> [eth0]T42 Both T60 and T42 machines have three sub-interfaces: T60:~ # ip addr show | grep "eth0.[0-9]*$" inet 10.10.1.1/24 brd 10.10.

[Iperf-users] iperf and negative bandwidth parameter in case of UDP test(-u)

2011-11-29 Thread Martin T
I have a following very simple setup: PC1[eth0] <-> [fxp0]PC2 Both PC1 and PC2 have Iperf version 2.0.5 installed. eth0 in PC1 has IPv4 address 10.10.10.1 and fxp0 in PC2 has IPv4 address 10.10.10.2. PC1 and PC2 NIC's are connected with straight-through cable. If I execute Iperf server in PC2 l

Re: [Iperf-users] Iperf ignoring "UDP buffer size" and "TCP window size"

2011-04-06 Thread Martin T
lues? regards, martin 2011/4/4 Marc Herbert : > On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Martin T wrote: > >> If I execute Iperf(version 2.0.5 (08 Jul 2010) pthreads) client with >> "iperf -c 192.168.2.1 -u -fm -t60 -d -b 10m -w 4m" command, Iperf >> server with "iperf -s u -

[Iperf-users] Iperf ignoring "UDP buffer size" and "TCP window size"

2011-04-04 Thread Martin T
If I execute Iperf(version 2.0.5 (08 Jul 2010) pthreads) client with "iperf -c 192.168.2.1 -u -fm -t60 -d -b 10m -w 4m" command, Iperf server with "iperf -s u -w 4m" command, Iperf client with "iperf -c 192.168.1.1 -t 60 -w 2m" command etc, I get the "TCP window size: 50.0 KByte (WARNING: requested