On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 10:36 -0800, Rick Jones wrote: > When parsing the -P option in scan_socket_args() of src/nettest_bsd.c, > netperf is using "break_args()" from src/netsh.c which indeed if the > command line says "-P 12345" will set both the local and remote port > numbers to 12345. If instead you were to say "-P 12345," it will use > 12345 only for the netperf side. If you say "-P ,12345" it will use > 12345 only for the netserver side. To set both sides at once to > different values it would be "-P 12345,54321" > > In theory, send_udp_rr() in src/nettest_bsd.c (or I suppose > scan_socket_args() could have more code added to it to check for a UDP > test over loopback, but probably needs to be a check for any local IP, > and unless this becomes something bigger than "Doctor! Doctor! It hurts > when I do this!" :) I'm inclined to leave it as caveat benchmarker and > perhaps some additional text in the manual. I will instrument kernel to see if kernel does work like it is expected.
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