netstress(1)

💅 netstress — utility to stress and benchmark networks

okay bestie, welcome to netstress(1) ✨ this is the section-1 manual page for the one and only netstress, and we're gonna go through it together, no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

netstress — utility designed to stress and benchmark network activity

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

netstress -m[NAME] | --master=[NAME] [OPTIONS]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like. it's a client/server utility, and its whole thing is stressing & benchmarking the network activity of a given ethernet device or path 🔥 but here's the twist that makes it iconic: it uses simulated (random) real world data and packet sizes instead of fixed data and packet sizes. literally so much better, it's giving realism.

and the command line usage is easy, bestie 💖 random packet sizes and random data, for read, write, or read & write (that last one is the default, btw) testing, and it reports benchmark results from the ethernet device.

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -m[NAME], --master[=NAME] — this instance is the master. main character energy, obviously 👑
• -s[NAME], --slave[=NAME] — this instance is the slave.
• -h, --host nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn — use this host or IP address 🫶
• -p, --port nnn — use this port (default=5678)
• --seed, -S nnn — use this random number seed (master only!! master only, don't forget)
• -c, --ctime — report current time (default reports elapsed time)
• -n, --nsec nnn — report every nnn seconds (default=5)
• -N, --nrep nnn — benchmark every nnn reports (default=3)
• -b, --bytes — benchmark using bytes (default is bits, so this is the switch-up)
• -M, --mps — benchmark using mbytes/sec or mbits/sec (this one's the default)
• -K, --kps — benchmark using kbytes/sec or kbits/sec
• -B, --bps — benchmark using bytes/sec or bits/sec
• -w, --mwo — only test master write / slave read
• -r, --mro — only test master read / slave write
• -R, --realrandom — do real random test (not pseudo random)
• -f, --fast — run Fast (no checking, no real_random). she's fast, she's unbothered, she's not checking anything 💀
• -v, --verbosity — enable verbosity (multiples increase level)
• -d, --debug — enable debugging (multiples increase level)
• -?, --help — give this information

ngl bestie, -v and -d stack — stack them multiples and the level goes up. periodt.

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

the NETSTRESS was written by Jim Gleason <jimgleason@users.sf.net>, Avocent Corp. and Helius, Inc.

this manual page was written by Giovani Augusto Ferreira <giovani@riseup.net> for the Debian project (but may be used by others) 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 it's from the netstress-1.2.0 era, dated 06 Jun 2015 — vintage but still slaying. go stress some networks responsibly ✨🦋🌸