perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Brian Candler <>]

On 04/12/2014 15:45, Brian Tierney wrote:
> That is very odd.
>
> what version of iperf3 and what version of bwctl are you running?
The exact ones installed by a perfsonar toolkit 3.4.1 netinstall.

[root@cov-perf-1
 ~]# rpm -qi iperf3
Name        : iperf3                       Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 3.0.9                             Vendor: (none)
Release     : 1.el6                         Build Date: Wed 15 Oct 2014 
13:17:10 UTC
Install Date: Fri 28 Mar 2014 00:17:55 UTC      Build Host: 
idcdev7.internet2.edu
Group       : Applications/Internet         Source RPM: 
iperf3-3.0.9-1.el6.src.rpm
Size        : 133633                           License: BSD
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Wed 15 Oct 2014 13:45:25 UTC, Key ID 
868ddf2c9d7b9686
URL         : http://github.com/esnet/iperf
Summary     : Measurement tool for TCP/UDP bandwidth performance
Description :
Iperf is a tool to measure maximum TCP bandwidth, allowing the tuning of
various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay
jitter, data-gram loss.
[root@cov-perf-1
 ~]# rpm -qi bwctl
Name        : bwctl                        Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 1.5.2                             Vendor: (none)
Release     : 10.el6                        Build Date: Thu 02 Oct 2014 
15:23:26 UTC
Install Date: Fri 28 Mar 2014 00:24:54 UTC      Build Host: 
idcdev7.internet2.edu
Group       : *Development/Libraries*       Source RPM: 
bwctl-1.5.2-10.el6.src.rpm
Size        : 0                                License: Apache License v2.0
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Thu 02 Oct 2014 15:24:32 UTC, Key ID 
868ddf2c9d7b9686
Packager    : Aaron Brown 
<>
URL         : http://e2epi.internet2.edu/bwctl/
Summary     : bwctl - network throughput tester
Description :
BWCTL is a command line client application and a scheduling and policy 
daemon
that wraps Iperf, Thrulay or nuttcp.
[root@cov-perf-1
 ~]#