How To Install iperf on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iperf
on CentOS 7.
What is iperf
Iperf is a tool to measure maximum TCP bandwidth, allowing the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, datagram loss.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install iperf
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install iperf.
Install iperf on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install iperf
using yum
by running the following command:
Install iperf on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install iperf
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall iperf on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the iperf
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iperf
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.