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:

• Debian and Ubuntu:

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  apt install flent
  

• Fedora:

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  dnf install flent
  

• Ubuntu pre-18.04:

  Add the tohojo/flent PPA <https://launchpad.net/~tohojo/+archive/ubuntu/flent>_.

• Arch Linux:

  Install Flent from the AUR <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/flent>_.

• Other Linux:

  Install from the Python Package Index <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/flent>_:

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  pip install flent
  

• FreeBSD:

  Install the package

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  pkg install flent
  

  Or install the port

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    cd /usr/ports/net/flent && make install
  

• macOS:

  Homebrew <https://brew.sh/>_ and Python 3 must be installed (Python 3 can be installed using Homebrew)

  Install the patched netperf package <https://github.com/kris-anderson/homebrew-netperf>_

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  brew tap kris-anderson/netperf
  brew install netperf-enable-demo
  

  Install other dependencies

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  brew install fping
  pip3 install matplotlib --user
  

  Install Flent using pip

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  pip3 install flent --user
  

  Optional (install this if you want to use flent-gui)

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  pip3 install pyqt5 qtpy --user
  

Quick Start

See https://flent.org/intro.html#quick-start or doc/quickstart.rst.