performance_testing

• TCP

There are a wide range of tools available for measuring network performance. Common ones are:

• NetPIPE
• Netperf
• Iperf
• netsniff-ng
• gensink
• ttcp
• Qasino
• n-u-t-t-c-p great successor to ttcp.
• nttcp An improved version of the popular ttcp program.
• ISIC is a suite of utilities to exercise the stability of an IP Stack and its component stacks (TCP, UDP, ICMP et. al.)
• curl-loader application traffic generation (HTTP/S, FTP/S), loading and testing tool
• netutils-linux - a suite of utilities simplilfying linux networking stac

k performance troubleshooting and tuning.

Also of interest are common network application benchmarks such as:

• netbench 
• Windows file server benchmark develped by Veritest and used by PC MagazineRedgage LLC.
  It has been discontinued but you can download the client here.
• nfsstone 
• NFS benchmark available at Gelato@UNSW
• specweb 
• Web server benchmark. Original SpecWeb99 is replaced by SpecWeb2005.
  This is a commercial benchmark that costs $1200/$300 and has reporting restrictions.