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03-28-2010, 06:32 AM
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Location: California
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Understanding iperf?
Anyone who can help me with this command:
iperf -s -u -B <multicast address> -i 1
What does the above command means?
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03-28-2010, 07:35 AM
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Registered: Feb 2010
Distribution: gentoo, arch, fedora, freebsd
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-s - run in server mode
-u - use UDP
-B - bind to <multicast address>
-i 1 - 1 second between bandwidth reports
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03-28-2010, 07:55 AM
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May I know how is multicast address set in Linux Machine?How is it setup in server machine?
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03-28-2010, 10:20 PM
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multicast address includes the addresses from 224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255.
You can just set e.g. iperf -s -u -B 239.0.0.1 -i 1 on server machine.
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