| Application | Package | Version | Worked By | URLs | Comment | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Link Speed/Performance Testers | ||||||
ttcp | ttcp | 1.12 | Pekka Savola |
| TTCP is a tool for testing TCP connections. It makes a connection on a port selected by the user and transfers fabricated buffers or data copied from stdin. |  |
ptcp | ptcp | 3.3 | Peter Bieringer |
| PTCP sends via TCP a buffer to a server (mirror) and waits for an echo back. | |
Iperf | Iperf | 1.7.0 | Maintainers |
| While tools to measure network performance, such as ttcp, exist, most are very old and have confusing options. Iperf was developed as a modern alternative for measuring TCP and UDP bandwidth performance. Iperf is a tool to measure maximum TCP bandwidth, allowing the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, datagram loss. |  |
echoping | echoping | 5.0.1 | Maintainers |
| echoping is a small program to test (approximatively) performances of a remote host by sending it TCP (or other protocol) "echo" packets. echoping supports IPv6 as well as IPv4, uses the protocols echo, discard, chargen or HTTP, uses UDP instead of TCP for the protocols which accept it (like echo), can repeat the test and display various measures about it, and can use T/TCP on systems which support it. | |
netperf | netperf | 2.2pl4 | Maintainers |
| Netperf is a benchmark that can be used to measure the performance of many different types of networking. It provides tests for both unidirecitonal throughput, and end-to-end latency. The environments currently measureable by netperf include TCP and UDP via BSD Sockets, DLPI, Unix Domain Sockets, Fore ATM API and HP HiPPI Link Level Access. | |
| Link and Node Testing | ||||||
ping6 | ip-utils | ss020927 | Maintainers |
| The iputils package contains basic networking tools like ping/ping6, tracepath/tracepath6, rdisc and traceroute6. The ping command and its IPv6-enabled version ping6 send a series of ICMP protocol ECHO_REQUEST packets to a specified network host and can tell you if that machine is alive and receiving network traffic. | |
fping | fping | 2.4b2_to-ipv6 | Maintainers |
| fping is a ping(1) like program which uses the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request to determine if a host is up. fping is different from ping in that you can specify any number of hosts on the command line, or specify a file containing the lists of hosts to ping. Instead of trying one host until it timeouts or replies, fping will send out a ping packet and move on to the next host in a round-robin fashion. If a host replies, it is noted and removed from the list of hosts to check. If a host does not respond within a certain time limit and/or retry limit it will be considered unreachable. Unlike ping, fping is meant to be used in scripts and its output is easy to parse. | |
| Application | Package | Version | Worked By | URLs | Comment | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Route Testing | ||||||
tracepath6 | ip-utils | ss020927 | Maintainers |
| The iputils package contains basic networking tools like ping/ping6, tracepath/tracepath6, rdisc and traceroute6. tracepath and its IPv6-enabled version tracepath6 trace path to destination using the Path MTU Discovery technique (RFC1191 and RFC1981). These tools are similar to traceroute, only they don't require superuser privileges and have no fancy options. | |
traceroute6 | ip-utils | ss020927 | Maintainers |
| The iputils package contains basic networking tools like ping/ping6, tracepath/tracepath6, rdisc and traceroute6. Just like its IPv4 counterpart, traceroute6 tracks the route one's packets follow using the IPv6 protocol `HOP Limit' field and attempting to elicit an ICMPv6 TIME_EXCEEDED response from each gateway along the path to some host. Note that this version is outda ted now. | |
traceroute | traceroute | at least since 1.0.4 | Maintainers |
| Traces the route taken by packets over a TCP/IP network. This version of traceroute supports IPv4 and IPv6 in one binary, but at least version 1.0.4 misses ICMP instead of UDP support. Note that this version is outdated now. | |
traceroute | traceroute | 2.x | Maintainers |
| Traces the route taken by packets over a TCP/IP network. This version of traceroute supports IPv4 and IPv6 in one binary and is a major extend version of older ones. It supports UDP, TCP and ICMP traceroutes for both protocols and replaces 'traceroute6' and 'tcptraceroute'. | |
mtr | mtr | at least since 0.71 | Maintainers |
| Mtr is a network diagnostic tool that combines ping and traceroute into one program. | |