Platforms

The RTPL package is in principle available for all Unix platforms. It has been and is used with: BSD/OS (Free BSD), OSF1 (Digital Unix), IRIX64, HP-UX, Linux (RedHat), SunOS. For other platforms modification may be needed, especially for the script host_net_test which executes the measurements at host i. However, these modifications are in general simple: they are caused by small differences in the options and output format of the programs, used by the scripts, at the different Unix platforms. This is the price one has to pay for using standard system programs. Fortunately the programs used by the scripts are a fundamental part of the system. Therefore, there are hardly any modifications in user interfaces of these programs during system upgrades.