Package bwping: Information

    Source package: bwping
    Version: 1.7-alt2
    Build time:  Jan 14, 2021, 06:48 PM
    Category: Monitoring
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    Home page: bwping.sourceforge.net

    License: BSD
    Summary: Tool to measure bandwidth and response times between two hosts using Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
    Description: 
    BWPing is a tool to measure bandwidth and response times between two
    hosts using Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request/echo
    reply mechanism. It does not require any special software on the
    remote host. The only requirement is the ability to respond on ICMP
    echo request messages.
    
    Although BWPing does not require any special software on the remote
    host (only the ability to respond on ICMP echo request messages),
    there are some special requirements to network infrastructure, local
    and remote host performance:
    
    - There should be no ICMP echo request/reply filtering on the network;
      this includes QoS mechanisms (which often affects ICMP) at any
      point in the testing path.
    
    - Local host should have enough CPU resources to send ICMP echo
      request messages with given rate, and remote host should quickly
      respond on these messages and should have no ICMP bandwidth
      limiting turned on.
    
    If some of these requirements are not satisfied then the measurement
    results will be inadequate or fail completely. In general, for testing
    bandwidth where QoS is implemented, always test with traffic that
    matches the QoS class to be tested.

    List of RPM packages built from this SRPM:
    bwping (e2kv5, e2kv4, e2k)
    bwping-debuginfo (e2kv5, e2kv4, e2k)

    Maintainer: Evgenii Terechkov

    List of contributors:
    Evgenii Terechkov

    Last changed


    Oct. 9, 2014 Evgenii Terechkov 1.7-alt2
    - Hack to build with IPv6 supoort
    Oct. 7, 2014 Evgenii Terechkov 1.7-alt1
    - new version
    June 14, 2011 Evgenii Terechkov 1.4-alt1
    - Initial build for ALT Linux Sisyphus