README

Rust clone of Kai Uwe Rommels' NETIO Benchmark that I've always greatly enjoyed using, but that (imho) has a couple downsides:

• It was Not Invented Here (obviously)
• The server side output differs from the client side and is far less readable
• The license prevents it from ever hitting any repos (and Kai does not provide his own)

And because I wanted to take a look at Rust anyway, I thought I'd go ahead and write a clone for fun and great justice.

Features

• Nice tabular output on both client and server side
• IPv6 ready
• Tests with extremely small packets (like those of an SSH connection when someone's extremely good at typing)
• binaries for Windows and Linux available (64 bit --release builds)

Installation

Linux

wget -O /usr/local/bin/netio https://github.com/Svedrin/netio/releases/latest/download/netio-x86_64 && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/netio

Windows

Install the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015.

Right-click this link, "save as", store to somewhere easily accessible via cmd.exe.

Usage Examples

Here's how to use it. Server side:

root@hive:# netio -1
TCP server listening.
New connection from V6([2001:6f8:108f:1:c0c6:73c3:8b5:214c]:40704).
Packet size    32 bytes:   18.40 MBit/s Rx       21.40 MBit/s Tx
Packet size    64 bytes:   18.16 MBit/s Rx       20.87 MBit/s Tx
Packet size  1024 bytes:   18.59 MBit/s Rx       19.48 MBit/s Tx
Packet size  1492 bytes:   17.90 MBit/s Rx       20.32 MBit/s Tx
Packet size  1500 bytes:   18.79 MBit/s Rx       19.68 MBit/s Tx
Packet size  2048 bytes:   19.46 MBit/s Rx       20.25 MBit/s Tx
Packet size 16384 bytes:   18.53 MBit/s Rx       14.21 MBit/s Tx
Test finished.

Client side:

root@dev-psql-n1:~# netio 192.168.42.10
Connected to V4(192.168.42.10:55455).
Packet size    32 bytes:  422.29 MBit/s Tx      406.65 MBit/s Rx
Packet size    64 bytes:  827.98 MBit/s Tx      804.86 MBit/s Rx
Packet size  1024 bytes:    9.38 GBit/s Tx        6.83 GBit/s Rx
Packet size  1492 bytes:    9.38 GBit/s Tx        9.40 GBit/s Rx
Packet size  1500 bytes:    9.38 GBit/s Tx        9.39 GBit/s Rx
Packet size  2048 bytes:    9.38 GBit/s Tx        9.40 GBit/s Rx
Packet size 16384 bytes:    9.39 GBit/s Tx        9.40 GBit/s Rx
Test finished.

Firewalls

Netio uses TCP port 55455. The client always connects to the server, and then traffic flows in both ways. This way you can easily test your internet connection by running the server on an online node and the client on your notebook.

Building from Source

git clone https://github.com/Svedrin/netio.git
cd netio
cargo build --release

Note that the debug build seems to only reach throughput rates around 1.3Gbit/s, so if you're going to benchmark a 10GE link, you need to build netio with --release.