| .TH netserver 1 "" |
| .SH NAME |
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| netserver \- a network performance benchmark server |
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| .SH SYNOPSIS |
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| .B netserver |
| [-4] |
| [-6] |
| [-d] |
| [-h] |
| [-L name,family] |
| [-p portnum] |
| [-v verbosity] |
| [-V] |
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| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .B Netserver |
| listens for connections from a |
| .B netperf |
| benchmark, and responds accordingly. |
| It can either be run from |
| .B inetd |
| or as a standalone daemon (with the -p flag). If run from |
| .B inetd |
| the -p option should not be used. |
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| .SS OPTIONS |
| .TP |
| .B \-4 |
| Use AF_INET (aka IPv4) addressing for the control and possibly data |
| connections. |
| .TP |
| .B \-6 |
| Use AF_INET6 (aka IPv6) addressing for the control and possibly data |
| connections. |
| .TP |
| .B \-d |
| Increase the quantity of debugging output displayed during |
| a test (possibly at the expense of performance). |
| .TP |
| .B \-h |
| Display a usage string, and exit. |
| .TP |
| .B \-L name,family |
| Set the local name and/or address family for the socket used for |
| the control connection. |
| .TP |
| .B \-p portnum |
| Listen on the specified port. |
| This is used when running as a standalone daemon. |
| .TP |
| .B \-v verbosity |
| Set the verbosity level for the test. |
| .TP |
| .B \-V |
| Display the netperf version and exit. |
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| .SH BUGS |
| No known bugs at this time. If you think you have found a bug, please report it to either netperf-talk@netperf.org or netperf-feedback@netperf.org. |
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| .SH SEE ALSO |
| .BR netperf (1) |
| .br |
| .I |
| Netperf: A Network Performance Benchmark |
| .br |
| http://www.netperf.org/ |
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| .SH AUTHORS |
| HP Information Networks Division - Networking Performance Team. |
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| Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> |
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| Karen Choy HP IND |
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| Dave Shield <daves@csc.liv.ac.uk> (man pages) |
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| Others too numerous to mention here - see the AUTHORS file |
