How To Install sipp on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sipp on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sipp.
Install sipp on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install sipp using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sipp
Install sipp 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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install sipp using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sipp
How To Uninstall sipp on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the sipp package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sipp
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sipp on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
