iperf for fedora core 4
 

halo...i am using fedora core 4, 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 i686
and i want to install a tool called iperf which is used to measure network performance, such as ttcp, exist, most are very old and have confusing options.
I did found a link as below:
http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/

May i know the package i should download is unix / win32?
Because when i looked on the installation guide inside the downloaded package, the content as below:

$Id: INSTALL,v 1.2 2002/10/04 22:33:06 jdugan Exp $

Platform Specific Notes

FreeBSD

If you use a cc or c++ other than the system one, threads may not be
detected properly. To work around this set the following environment
variables:

setenv CC /usr/bin/cc
setenv CXX /usr/bin/c++


This package seem like is for distribution of FreeBSD.

May I know can I install it into fedora core 4??

or I did found a link as below:
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache...y&ct=clnk&cd=3

But the package is for Fedora Core 4 for i386 (fc4-i386),
but my kernel is fc4, 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 i686

Can i install it ??

yes you can install the last one. (i386)
But why don't you give "nmap" at try?
Here some Links
1st
2nd.

halo...may i know i can download the package for unix / win32 from the first link of my previous message??
Actually my lecturer want me to use iperf, i have to follow.

I had a look on that page. Just download that tar.gz file.
Unpack it with tar -xvzf iperf-1.7.0-source.tar.gz
cd into the dir and follow the Install Documentation.

This Link

Nice tool...
1st download the source
2nd unpack tar -xvzf iperf-1.7.0-source.tar.gz
3rd cd to iperf-1.7.0
4th make
5th make install
(the binary will be installed in /usr/bin/ipref

For issues check the README within /iperf-1.7.0/README

halo... i did have an error message when come to step "make" :

[root@localhost iperf-1.7.0]# make
Makefile:124: VERSION: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `VERSION'. Stop.

May i know are u using fedora ???

Did anyone know why got this problem ?? please drop your messages here . Thanks !!

halo.. may i know did anyone have installed iperf in fedora before ??
Actually i am not very sure why i cannot install the iperf-1.7.0 as odcheck can install it.

Did anyone have any ideas about it ??

Did you install the development tools from Fedora Install media? If not reinstall them all.

Once you have the distribution, on UNIX, unpack it using gzip and tar. That will create a new directory 'iperf-<version#>' with the source files and documentation.
Iperf compiles cleanly on many systems including Linux, SGI IRIX, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, and Cray UNICOS. Use 'make' to configure for your OS and compile the source code.

gunzip -c iperf-<version>.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
cd iperf-<version>
make


To install iperf and jperf, use 'make install', which will ask you where to install it. To recompile, the easiest way is to start over. Do 'make distclean' then 'make'. See the Makefile for more options