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 EVEN THOUGH IT MAY BE OUTDATED.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 EVEN THOUGH IT MAY BE OUTDATED.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 EVEN THOUGH IT MAY BE OUTDATED.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