Flent: The FLExible Network Tester

Flent is a Python wrapper to run multiple simultaneous netperf/iperf/ping instances and aggregate the results. It was previously known as 'netperf-wrapper'. See the web site for the main documentation: https://flent.org.

Installing Flent

Installing Flent can be done in several ways, depending on your operating system:

• Debian and Ubuntu:

  apt install flent

• Fedora:

  dnf install flent

• Ubuntu pre-18.04:

  Add the tohojo/flent PPA.

• Arch Linux:

  Install Flent from the AUR.

• Other Linux:

  Install from the Python Package Index:

  pip install flent

• FreeBSD:

  Install the package

  pkg install flent

  Or install the port

  cd /usr/ports/net/flent && make install

• macOS:

  Homebrew and Python 3 must be installed (Python 3 can be installed using Homebrew)

  Install the patched netperf package

  brew tap kris-anderson/netperf
  brew install netperf-enable-demo

  Install other dependencies

  brew install fping
  pip3 install matplotlib --user

  Install Flent using pip

  pip3 install flent --user

  Optional (install this if you want to use flent-gui)

  pip3 install pyqt5 qtpy --user

Quick Start

See https://flent.org/intro.html#quick-start or doc/quickstart.rst.