How To Install sipp on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sipp on Fedora 34.
What is sipp
SIPp is a free Open Source test tool / traffic generator for the SIP protocol. It includes a few basic SipStone user agent scenarios (UAC and UAS) and establishes and releases multiple calls with the INVITE and BYE methods. It can also reads custom XML scenario files describing from very simple to complex call flows. It features the dynamic display of statistics about running tests (call rate, round trip delay, and message statistics), periodic CSV statistics dumps, TCP and UDP over multiple sockets or multiplexed with retransmission management and dynamically adjustable call rates.
We can use yum or dnf to install sipp on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sipp.
Install sipp on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install sipp using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sipp
Install sipp on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install sipp using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sipp
How To Uninstall sipp on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the sipp package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sipp
sipp Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/sipp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/cb1f4e2f00f9f21fee6f17bfdf7a567cae84d4
/usr/share/doc/sipp
/usr/share/doc/sipp/README.md
/usr/share/doc/sipp/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/sipp
/usr/share/licenses/sipp/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/sipp
/usr/share/sipp/pcap
/usr/share/sipp/pcap/dtmf_2833_0.pcap
/usr/share/sipp/pcap/dtmf_2833_1.pcap
/usr/share/sipp/pcap/dtmf_2833_2.pcap
/usr/share/sipp/pcap/dtmf_2833_3.pcap
/usr/share/sipp/pcap/dtmf_2833_4.pcap
/usr/share/sipp/pcap/dtmf_2833_5.pcap
/usr/share/sipp/pcap/dtmf_2833_6.pcap
/usr/share/sipp/pcap/dtmf_2833_7.pcap
/usr/share/sipp/pcap/dtmf_2833_8.pcap
/usr/share/sipp/pcap/dtmf_2833_9.pcap
/usr/share/sipp/pcap/dtmf_2833_pound.pcap
/usr/share/sipp/pcap/dtmf_2833_star.pcap
/usr/share/sipp/pcap/g711a.pcap
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sipp on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.