Intel® Ethernet 700/800 Series
Windows Performance Tuning Guide
iperf2
Intel recommends using iperf2 over iperf3 for most benchmarking situations due to their ease of use and support of multiple threads in a single application instance. Intel recommends running with the -P option with 2 to 4 threads for 25G connections and around 6 to 8 threads for 100G connections.
Download the latest iperf2 Windows binary: Iperf 2 Files
To run uni-directional traffic from client to server:
- Start Server.
iperf-2.1.9-win.exe -s -D - Start Client:
iperf-2.1.9-win.exe -c <serverIP> -P <threads>
To run bi-directional traffic from client to server and vice versa:
- Start Server:
iperf-2.1.9-win.exe -s -D -p <port> - Start Client:
iperf-2.1.9-win.exe -c <serverIP> -p <port> -P <threads> --full-duplex or
iperf-2.1.9-win.exe -c <serverIP> -p <port> -P <threads> -d