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 can be done in several ways, depending on your operating system:
Arch Linux:
Install Flent from the AUR.
Debian and Ubuntu:
apt install flent
Fedora:
dnf install flent
Gentoo:
emerge net-analyzer/flent
Nix:
Flent is available in nixpkgs through the flent attribute.
Ubuntu pre-18.04:
Add the tohojo/flent PPA.
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
See https://flent.org/intro.html#quick-start or doc/quickstart.rst.
