netsend(1)

NAME

netsend - a speedy filetransfer and network diagnostic program

SYNOPSIS

netsend [OPTIONS] PROTOCOL MODE { COMMAND | HELP }

DESCRIPTION

PROTOCOL

Protocol is one of

tcp, udp, udplite, dccp, sctp or tipc.

When using tipc, you must also specify a socket type, e.g. netsend tipc MODE -t SOCK_STREAM.

MODE

Mode is either receive or transmit.

OPTIONS

-r Nn,Nd,Nm,Nf

    Round trip probes options:
    Nn - Number of iterations of round trip probes. Default is to perform 10 attempts.
         Don't set to less then 5 because measurement results will not very predicating.
    Nd - Size of rtt payload. This is the number of bytes piggybacking (plus the
         netsend rtt header). Default is 500 byte, maybe your mtu minus netsend header
         minus protocol header (tcp, udp) will better fit for your needs.
    Nm - for the round trip time probes netsend calculates a deviation. With this
         flag you can adjust the filter. Default is 4. Lower values drain more probes
         out, so be carefully with this option.
         For example: if you have measured rtt probes of 4, 5, 5, 6 and 15 ms. The
         average is 7. Covariance is 16.4 and deviation is 4.04. If you select 2 here as
         the multiplier, then you filter all rtt probes with higher values then 8.08 (for 
         this example you filer 15ms out).
         This will help to discard some nonesense probes who are evoked through cold code
         paths (cache misses, page faults, ...) or network anomalies. Use this option
         carefully!
  -f    forces to don't perform rtt probes but take N milliseconds as average value. With
        this option you can figure out the behaviour of satelite links (e.g you say -D500f)

-b

        followed by a number: sets read/write buffer size to use. Default is 8192 for read/write and
        size_of_file_to_send for mmap/sendfile.

-m

        followed by a memadvise(2) option: normal, sequential, random, willneed, dontneed, noreuse.

-p

        followed by a number: set TCP/UDP/DCCP/SCTP port to use. Default is 6666.

-P

        followed by scheduling policy: sched_rr, sched_fifo, sched_batch or sched_other

-s

        followed by a setsockopt(2) optname and optval. netsend maps setsockopt levels and
        optlen internally.  running 'netsend -s list' will print a list of all setsockopt
        optnames currently recognized by netsend.

-T

        followed by either human or machine: sets output format

-u

        followed by the transmit function to use. One of sendfile, mmap, splice or rw.
        When not specified, rw (read/write) is used.
        Note that not all protocols support all transfer methods, e.g. TIPCs connectionless sockets (SOCK_RDM and SOCK_DGRAM)
        do not support the sendfile system call. Also, the amount of data that can be sent in a single operation may be limited
        by the network protocol used.

EXAMPLES

Listen for incoming SCTP connections, incoming data goes to stdout:

./netsend -T human -v stressful sctp receive

Send file largefile via TCP with output in machine parseable format:

./netsend -T machine tcp transmit largefile host.example.org

Receive data via TCP with MD5SIG from peer 10.0.0.1:

./netsend tcp transmit -C largefile ffff::10.0.0.1 ./netsend tcp receive -C ffff::10.0.0.1

EXIT STATUS

netsend returns a zero exist status if it succeeds. Non zero is returned in case of failure. Following failure codes are implemented:

  0 - succeed
  1 - failure in memory handling
  2 - command line option error
  3 - failure which fit in any categories
  4 - network error
  5 - failure in netsend header (maybe corrupted hardware)
  6 - netsend internal error (should never happen[tm])

AUTHOR

  Hagen Paul Pfeifer
  Florian Westphal