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 EVEN THOUGH IT MAY BE OUTDATED. 3 4This is a brief readme file for the netperf TCP/UDP/sockets/etc 5performance benchmark.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 EVEN THOUGH IT MAY BE OUTDATED. 12 13There is a COPYRIGHT file included.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 EVEN THOUGH IT MAY BE OUTDATED. 50