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["Jeff W. Boote" <>]

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The initial beta release of BWCTL (Bandwidth Control) is now available for
download from http://e2epi.internet2.edu/bwctl/.

BWCTL is a command line client application and a scheduling and policy daemon
that wraps iperf (http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/). Currently BWCTL 
wraps
Iperf by actually executing iperf on the systems. The application works by
contacting a bwctld process on the remote system and on the local system to
request that those daemons perform a specific iperf test between them.

BWCTL specifically allows multiple entities to request Iperf tests to the same
host without forcing those entities to have any prior knowledge of each other.
This makes it much easier to mix on-demand and regularly scheduled Iperf tests
to the same host.

More information on BWCTL can be found from http://e2epi.internet2.edu/bwctl/.

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the bwctl-users email lists.

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Jeff Boote

Internet2