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| caption = TCP Performance Measurement Tool

| statusauthor = activeRick Jones

| developer = HP Networking Performance Team and others

| latest release version = 2.7.0

| latest release date = {{releasestart date and age|2015|07|20}}

| status = active

| operating system = [[Cross-platform]]

| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]]

| genre = [[Bandwidth management]]

| license = [[MIT License|MIT]]

| website = {{URL|https://hewlettpackard.github.io/netperf/}}

| repo = {{URL|github.com/HewlettPackard/netperf}}

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'''Netperf''' is a software application that provides [[network bandwidth]] testing between two hosts on a network. It supports [[Unix ___domain socket]]s, [[Transmission Control Protocol|TCP]], [[SCTP]], [[DLPI]] and UDP via BSD Sockets.<ref>{{cite conference | title=Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing | publisher=Springer |author1=Sang-Soo Yeo |author2=Jong Hyuk Park |author3=Ching-Hsien Hsu |author4=Laurence Tianruo Yang | year=2010 | conference=10th International Conference, ICA3PP | pages=372 | isbn=9783642131189}}</ref> Netperf provides a number of predefined tests e.g. to measure bulk (unidirectional) data transfer or request response performance.

A particular feature of Netperf is that it runs each test multiple times and reports not only the results but also reports the Confidence Interval. It can test both TCP and UDP. It was written in C and works on most UNIX variants, including BSD, System V, Linux, and MacOS.

Netperf was originally developed at [[Hewlett Packard]].<ref>{{cite book | title=Troubleshooting Microsoft technologies: the ultimate administrator's repair manual | publisher=Addison-Wesley Professional | author=Wolf, Chris | year=2003 | pages=119 | isbn=9780321133458}}</ref>

Netperf was originally developed by Rick Jones at [[Hewlett Packard]] in Cupertino, CA.<ref>{{cite book | title=Troubleshooting Microsoft technologies: the ultimate administrator's repair manual | publisher=Addison-Wesley Professional | author=Wolf, Chris | year=2003 | pages=119 | isbn=9780321133458}}</ref>

==See also==