Flent: The FLExible Network Tester
Flent is a Python wrapper to run multiple simultaneous netperf/iperf/ping instances and aggregate the results. It was previously known as ‘netperf-wrapper’. See the web site for the main documentation: https://flent.org.
Installing Flent
Installing Flent can be done in several ways, depending on your operating system:
Arch Linux:
Install Flent from the AUR.
Debian and Ubuntu:
apt install flentFedora:
dnf install flentGentoo: (supported in pkalin overlay)
eselect repository enable pkalin && eix-sync emerge net-analyzer/flentNix:
Flent is available in nixpkgs through the flent attribute.
Ubuntu pre-18.04:
Add the tohojo/flent PPA.
Other Linux:
Install from the Python Package Index:
pip install flentFreeBSD:
Install the package
pkg install flentOr install the port
cd /usr/ports/net/flent && make installmacOS:
Homebrew and Python 3 must be installed (Python 3 can be installed using Homebrew)
Install the patched netperf package
brew tap kris-anderson/netperf brew install netperf-enable-demoInstall other dependencies
brew install fping pip3 install matplotlib --userInstall Flent using pip
pip3 install flent --userOptional (install this if you want to use flent-gui)
pip3 install pyqt5 qtpy --user
Quick Start
See https://flent.org/intro.html#quick-start or doc/quickstart.rst.
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