How To Install nuttcp on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nuttcp
on CentOS 7.
What is nuttcp
nuttcp is a network performance measurement tool intended for use by network and system managers. Its most basic usage is to determine the raw TCP (or UDP) network layer throughput by transferring memory buffers from a source system across an interconnecting network to a destination system, either transferring data for a specified time interval, or alternatively transferring a specified number of buffers. In addition to reporting the achieved network throughput in Mbps, nuttcp also provides additional useful information related to the data transfer such as user, system, and wall-clock time, transmitter and receiver CPU utilization, and loss percentage (for UDP transfers).
We can use yum
or dnf
to install nuttcp
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nuttcp.
Install nuttcp on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install nuttcp
using yum
by running the following command:
Install nuttcp 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 nuttcp
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall nuttcp on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the nuttcp
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nuttcp
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.