benchmarks/netperf 2.7.0 NetBSD

Netperf is a serious networking performance evaluation tool being distributed under GPL by HP's Information Networks Division. Testing is done using a pair of programs: `netserver' (the server) and `netperf' (the measurement tool).

Netperf allows control over a large number of test `variables'. Some of these are:

    \* specification of desired confidence levels for the tests
      Netperf will warn the user if these levels were not achieved.
    \* filling send buffers with specified data (to beat compression
  schemes)
    \* specification of send/recieve buffer alignments and data offsets
    \* requesting cpu utilization and service demand calculations
    \* specification of sizes of data to send

Netperf can be used for measuring stream performance as well as round-trip performance.

This port of netperf has been configured to support:

TCP and UDP via BSD sockets
Unix domain sockets