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Date:      Mon, 30 Apr 2001 20:49:54 +0200
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        brooks@one-eyed-alien.net
Cc:        singh@pdx.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: TTCP, Netperf and TcpBlast Problem
Message-ID:  <58324.988656594@verdi.nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Apr 2001 11:34:36 -0700"
References:  <20010430113436.A2706@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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> > This is the script file!!. I said that I went to ftp site to see whether
> > it (netperf-2.1pl3) is supported for FreeBSD, but I saw all th eother OS
> > but there was no reference for FreeBSD.
> 
> Ignore the f*ing ftp site.  It looks like there's something wrong with
> your network configuration that you can't fetch it, so you may have to
> fetch it manualy and place it in /usr/ports/distfiles (you can write
> to that, can't you?).  It's totally irrelavent that the site doesn't
> list FreeBSD as supported, that's what the port is for.  It works just
> fine here.

He's using an old ports tree. Using a recent ports tree works just fine:

% cd ports/benchmarks/netperf
% make
>> netperf-2.1pl3.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
>> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.cup.hp.com/dist/networking/benchmarks/netperf/./.
fetch: netperf-2.1pl3.tar.gz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
>> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.cup.hp.com/dist/networking/benchmarks/netperf/archive/.
Receiving netperf-2.1pl3.tar.gz (829036 bytes): 100%
829036 bytes transferred in 14.7 seconds (55.07 kBps)
>> netperf-21pl3-20010302.diff.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
>> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.kame.net/pub/kame/misc/.
Receiving netperf-21pl3-20010302.diff.gz (7725 bytes): 100%
7725 bytes transferred in 0.6 seconds (12.45 kBps)
===>  Extracting for netperf-2.1.3_1
>> Checksum OK for netperf-2.1pl3.tar.gz.
>> Checksum OK for netperf-21pl3-20010302.diff.gz.
===>  Patching for netperf-2.1.3_1
===>  Applying distribution patches for netperf-2.1.3_1
===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for netperf-2.1.3_1
===>  Configuring for netperf-2.1.3_1
Setting CFLAGS to "-O -pipe  -DDO_IPV6"
===>  Building for netperf-2.1.3_1
...

Oh yeah, Netperf has been working on FreeBSD at least since 1997 (that's
when I did my first tests of FreeBSD with 100 Mbps Ethernet and submitted
the results to the Netperf archive).

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no

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