How To Install sipp on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install sipp in Fedora 36. sipp is SIP test tool / traffic generator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sipp on Fedora 36.

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sipp.

Install sipp on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install sipp using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sipp

Install sipp on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 36

To uninstall only the sipp package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove sipp

sipp Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/sipp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/db
/usr/lib/.build-id/db/05e26c055da09b003506493f60bfa46fc938ad
/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

sipp website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sipp on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).