diff --git a/Library/Formula/netperf.rb b/Library/Formula/netperf.rb
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+require 'formula'
+
+class Netperf < Formula
+  homepage 'http://netperf.org'
+  url 'ftp://ftp.netperf.org/netperf/netperf-2.6.0.tar.bz2'
+  sha1 '3e1be4e7c3f7a838c4d5c00c6d20a619b320bfef'
+
+  def install
+    system "./configure", "--disable-dependency-tracking",
+                          "--prefix=#{prefix}"
+    system "make install"
+  end
+
+  test do
+    system "#{bin}/netperf -h | cat"
+  end
+end