Iperf


Iperf is a widely used tool for network performance measurement and tuning. It is significant as a cross-platform tool that can produce standardized performance measurements for any network. Iperf has client and server functionality, and can create data streams to measure the throughput between the two ends in one or both directions. Typical iperf output contains a time-stamped report of the amount of data transferred and the throughput measured.
The data streams can be either Transmission Control Protocol or User Datagram Protocol :
Iperf is open-source software written in C, and it runs on various platforms including Linux, Unix and Windows. The availability of the source code enables the user to scrutinize the measurement methodology.
Iperf is a compatible reimplementation of the ttcp program that was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois by the Distributed Applications Support Team of the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research, which was shut down on December 31, 2006, on termination of funding by the United States National Science Foundation.

iperf3

Iperf3 is a rewrite of iperf from scratch to create a smaller, simpler code base. It also includes a library version which enables other programs to use the provided functionality. Another change is that iperf3 is single threaded while iperf2 is multi-threaded. Iperf3 was started in 2009, with the first release in January 2014. Iperf3 is not backwards compatible with iperf2.

Graphical user interface

There was a graphical user interface front end available called jperf.