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.TH IPERF 1 "October 2015" ESnet "User Manuals"
.SH NAME
iperf3 \- perform network throughput tests
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B iperf3 -s [
.I options
.B ]
.br
.B iperf3 -c 
.I server
.B [
.I options
.B ]

.SH DESCRIPTION
iperf3 is a tool for performing network throughput measurements.  It can test
either TCP or UDP throughput.  To perform an iperf3 test the user must
establish both a server and a client.

.SH "GENERAL OPTIONS"
.TP
.BR -p ", " --port " \fIn\fR"
set server port to listen on/connect to to \fIn\fR (default 5201)
.TP
.BR -f ", " --format " "
[kmKM]   format to report: Kbits, Mbits, KBytes, MBytes
.TP
.BR -i ", " --interval " \fIn\fR"
pause \fIn\fR seconds between periodic bandwidth reports;
default is 1, use 0 to disable
.TP
.BR -F ", " --file " \fIname\fR"
client-side: read from the file and write to the network, instead
of using random data;
server-side: read from the network and write to the file, instead
of throwing the data away
.TP
.BR -A ", " --affinity " \fIn/n,m\fR"
Set the CPU affinity, if possible (Linux and FreeBSD only).
On both the client and server you can set the local affinity by using
the \fIn\fR form of this argument (where \fIn\fR is a CPU number).
In addition, on the client side you can override the server's
affinity for just that one test, using the \fIn,m\fR form of
argument.
Note that when using this feature, a process will only be bound
to a single CPU (as opposed to a set containing potentialy multiple
CPUs).
.TP
.BR -B ", " --bind " \fIhost\fR"
bind to a specific interface
.TP
.BR -V ", " --verbose " "
give more detailed output 
.TP
.BR -J ", " --json " "
output in JSON format
.TP
.BR --logfile " \fIfile\fR"
send output to a log file.
.TP
.BR -d ", " --debug " "
emit debugging output.
Primarily (perhaps exclusively) of use to developers.
.TP
.BR -v ", " --version " "
show version information and quit
.TP
.BR -h ", " --help " "
show a help synopsis

.SH "SERVER SPECIFIC OPTIONS"
.TP
.BR -s ", " --server " "
run in server mode
.TP
.BR -D ", " --daemon " "
run the server in background as a daemon
.TP
.BR -I ", " --pidfile " \fIfile\fR"
write a file with the process ID, most useful when running as a daemon.
.TP
.BR -1 ", " --one-off
handle one client connection, then exit.

.SH "CLIENT SPECIFIC OPTIONS"
.TP
.BR -c ", " --client " \fIhost\fR"
run in client mode, connecting to the specified server
.TP
.BR --sctp
use SCTP rather than TCP (FreeBSD and Linux)
.TP
.BR -u ", " --udp
use UDP rather than TCP
.TP
.BR -b ", " --bandwidth " \fIn\fR[KM]"
set target bandwidth to \fIn\fR bits/sec (default 1 Mbit/sec for UDP, unlimited for TCP).
If there are multiple streams (\-P flag), the bandwidth limit is applied
separately to each stream.
You can also add a '/' and a number to the bandwidth specifier.
This is called "burst mode".
It will send the given number of packets without pausing, even if that
temporarily exceeds the specified bandwidth limit.
Setting the target bandwidth to 0 will disable bandwidth limits
(particularly useful for UDP tests).
On platforms supporting the \fCSO_MAX_PACING_RATE\fR socket option
(currently only Linux), fair-queueing socket-level pacing, implemented in
the kernel, will be used.
On other platforms, iperf3 will implement its own rate control.
.TP
.BR --no-fq-socket-pacing
disable the use of fair-queueing based socket-level pacing with the -b
option, and rely on iperf3's internal rate control.
.TP
.BR -t ", " --time " \fIn\fR"
time in seconds to transmit for (default 10 secs)
.TP
.BR -n ", " --bytes " \fIn\fR[KM]"
number of bytes to transmit (instead of \-t)
.TP
.BR -k ", " --blockcount " \fIn\fR[KM]"
number of blocks (packets) to transmit (instead of \-t or \-n)
.TP
.BR -l ", " --length " \fIn\fR[KM]"
length of buffer to read or write (default 128 KB for TCP, 8KB for UDP)
.TP
.BR --cport " \fIport\fR"
bind data streams to a specific client port (for TCP and UDP only,
default is to use an ephemeral port)
.TP
.BR -P ", " --parallel " \fIn\fR"
number of parallel client streams to run
.TP
.BR -R ", " --reverse
run in reverse mode (server sends, client receives)
.TP
.BR -w ", " --window " \fIn\fR[KM]"
window size / socket buffer size (this gets sent to the server and used on that side too)
.TP
.BR -M ", " --set-mss " \fIn\fR"
set TCP/SCTP maximum segment size (MTU - 40 bytes)
.TP
.BR -N ", " --no-delay " "
set TCP/SCTP no delay, disabling Nagle's Algorithm
.TP
.BR -4 ", " --version4 " "
only use IPv4
.TP
.BR -6 ", " --version6 " "
only use IPv6
.TP
.BR -S ", " --tos " \fIn\fR"
set the IP 'type of service'
.TP
.BR -L ", " --flowlabel " \fIn\fR"
set the IPv6 flow label (currently only supported on Linux)
.TP
.BR -X ", " --xbind " \fIname\fR"
Bind SCTP associations to a specific subset of links using sctp_bindx(3).
The \fB--B\fR flag will be ignored if this flag is specified.
Normally SCTP will include the protocol addresses of all active links
on the local host when setting up an association. Specifying at least
one \fB--X\fR name will disable this behaviour.
This flag must be specified for each link to be included in the
association, and is supported for both iperf servers and clients
(the latter are supported by passing the first \fB--X\fR argument to bind(2)).
Hostnames are accepted as arguments and are resolved using
getaddrinfo(3).
If the \fB--4\fR or \fB--6\fR flags are specified, names
which do not resolve to addresses within the
specified protocol family will be ignored.
.TP
.BR --nstreams " \fIn\fR"
Set number of SCTP streams.
.TP
.BR -Z ", " --zerocopy " "
Use a "zero copy" method of sending data, such as sendfile(2),
instead of the usual write(2).
.TP
.BR -O ", " --omit " \fIn\fR"
Omit the first n seconds of the test, to skip past the TCP slow-start
period.
.TP
.BR -T ", " --title " \fIstr\fR"
Prefix every output line with this string.
.TP
.BR -C ", " --congestion " \fIalgo\fR"
Set the congestion control algorithm (Linux and FreeBSD only).  An
older
.B --linux-congestion
synonym for this flag is accepted but is deprecated.
.TP
.BR "--get-server-output"
Get the output from the server.
The output format is determined by the server (in particular, if the
server was invoked with the \fB--json\fR flag, the output will be in
JSON format, otherwise it will be in human-readable format).
If the client is run with \fB--json\fR, the server output is included
in a JSON object; otherwise it is appended at the bottom of the
human-readable output.

.SH AUTHORS
A list of the contributors to iperf3 can be found within the
documentation located at
\fChttp://software.es.net/iperf/dev.html#authors\fR.

.SH "SEE ALSO"
libiperf(3),
http://software.es.net/iperf