iPerf3 is a tool for active measurements of the maximum achievable bandwidth on IP networks. It supports tuning of various parameters related to timing, buffers and protocols (TCP, UDP, SCTP with IPv4 and IPv6). For each test it reports the bandwidth, loss, and other parameters.
In this post, we will demo the steps required for testing network throughput on ARM based BeagleBoard. This steps should work for any embedded platform.
Cross Compile Iperf for ARM
$ git clone https://github.com/esnet/iperf.git$ cd iperf/Assuming toolchain is located at /home/devlab/devlab/linaro/gcc-linaro-7.4.1-2019.02-x86_64_arm-linux-gnueabihf
$ export PATH=$PATH:/home/devlab/devlab/linaro/gcc-linaro-7.4.1-2019.02-x86_64_arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin$ mkdir out$ ./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabihf --prefix=/home/devlab/devlab/iperf/out$ make$ make install* copy ./out/bin/iperf to /usr/local/bin of BeagleBoard(ARM platform) RFS.
On linux host
$ iperf -s————————————————————
Server listening on TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default)
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[ 4] local 192.168.0.200 port 5001 connected with 192.168.0.202 port 51887
connect failed: Connection refused
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 222 MBytes 186 Mbits/sec
On BeagleBoard
root@beagleboard:~# iperf -c 192.168.0.200 -d————————————————————
Client connecting to 192.168.0.200, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 35.2 KByte (default)
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[ 3] local 192.168.0.202 port 51887 connected with 192.168.0.200 port 5001
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Server listening on TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default)
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Waiting for server threads to complete. Interrupt again to force quit.
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 222 MBytes 186 Mbits/sec
root@beagleboard:~#
Reference’s:
http://openmaniak.com/iperf.php
http://unixfoo.blogspot.com/2009/02/iperf-network-throughput-measurement.html