Installation and Configuration – Both Systems

The following variable is used in the examples in this section:

1. Perform general system setup.

   Complete the ADQ installation and setup in ADQ System Under Test (SUT) Installation and in General System Tuning on both the server and client systems.

   Note:Many settings in General System Tuning and Adapter Preparation do not persist between reboots and might have to be reapplied.
2. Install netperf:

   Method 1: Install netperf package from OS distribution.

   If your OS distribution has a netperf binary rpm available, the package can be installed using the package manager for the OS. Example on RHEL 8.x:

   yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm yum install -y netperf

   Method 2: Build and install netperf from source code.

   Note:Depending on the distro being used, libmnl dependency might be required before building netperf 2.7.0 or higher.

   Download netperf (2.7.0 recommended): https://github.com/HewlettPackard/netperf.git

   1. Install and build according to standard netperf directions. yum -y install automake texinfo cd netperf ./autogen.sh ./configure make && make install
   Note:netperf does not compile cleanly on RHEL 9.0 with gcc version 11. This is due to the default CFLAG changing from -fcommon to -fno-common in gcc 10. More details on the flag change can be found here:https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-10/porting_to.html. To compile netperf on RHEL 9.0 with gcc 11, the -fcommon flag can be used as a workaround. Replace the make && make install line above with: make CFLAGS=-fcommon && make install