Software

Below the software is listed which should be installed at the control host and the test hosts (see figure 1). Also download URL's are specified.

Perl 5

The scripting language Perl can be downloaded from http://www.perl.com/.

Netperf (test hosts only)

The Netperf throughput measurement package can be downloaded from http://www.netperf.org/netperf/NetperfPage.html.

Web server (control host only)

A HTTPD server is used to present the results via the Web. Note that no special rights at the Web server are needed to display the results. A popular Web server is the Apache server. It can be downloaded from http://www.apache.org/httpd.html. It is no limitation to run the Web server as a regular user.