1 2 BE SURE TO READ THE MANUAL. EVEN THOUGH IT MAY BE OUTDATED. 3 4 This is a brief readme file for the netperf TCP/UDP/sockets/etc 5 performance benchmark. This is here mostly as a boot-strap. The real 6 information is in the manual, which can be found in netperf.ps and 7 online from http://www.netperf.org/netperf/NetperfPage.html. The 8 sources, and a limited number of binaries, can be found from 9 ftp://ftp.cup.hp.com/dist/networking/benchmarks/netperf/ . 10 11 BE SURE TO READ THE MANUAL. EVEN THOUGH IT MAY BE OUTDATED. 12 13 There is a COPYRIGHT file included. It is called COPYING because that 14 is what autosomethingorother wanted. It is based on what the HP Legal 15 Eagles gave me. I am not sure if the legalese is clear, but the intent 16 is to say "Here is a benchmark. Use it in good health. Pass it along, 17 port it, enhance it. You didn't pay for this tool, so don't expect it 18 to be perfect ;-)" The rest of it is there to keep the layers happy... 19 20 While the copyright is pretty much in spirit an "open source" one, it 21 is not in letter - I never took the time to try to get it approved. 22 If you feel strongly about the license of the code you use and want 23 something under the GPL, consider netperf4: 24 25 http://www.netperf.org/svn/netperf4/trunk 26 27 Feel free to report netperf results in public forums, but please be 28 excruciatingly complete in your description of the test envorinment. 29 The old netperf database at: 30 31 http://www.netperf.org/netperf/NetperfPage.html 32 33 is no more - or rather the utilities for accessing it no longer run. 34 The data is still present in the tree, albeit _VERY_ old now. 35 36 There is an Internet mailing list devoted to netperf. It is called 37 netperf-talk and it is hosted on netperf.org. Subscription requests 38 should go to netperf-talk-request (a] netperf.org. 39 40 Please DO NOT SEND subscription requests to netperf-talk! 41 42 If you run into severe difficulties, or are just feeling chatty, 43 please feel free to drop some email to me - Rick Jones 44 <rick.jones2 (a] hp.com>. Be sure to include a meaningful subject lines. 45 46 happy benchmarking, 47 rick jones 48 49 BE SURE TO READ THE MANUAL. EVEN THOUGH IT MAY BE OUTDATED. 50
