[netperf] Debian bookworm installation requires non-free and non-free-firmware in sources.list

[mpenning]

FYI, under debian bookworm, I had to configure /etc/apt/sources.list with non-free* in order to install netperf...

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main

If we could update the README, that would be awesome... if not, at least this ticket is a pointer.

Thanks for a great network test tool!

[tohojo]

Thanks for the note. There's actually a two year old Debian bug to get netperf moved out of non-free, but unfortunately this has not happened :(

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1003833

[mpenning]

@tohojo should we just close this ticket? The Debian non-free* portion was only mentioned because I had to figure out how to install netperf on my system. BTW, the Debian iperf version 2 binary doesn't work from the Debian distro because it does not support the iperf --enhancedreports flag.

[freysteinn]

@tohojo should we just close this ticket? The Debian non-free* portion was only mentioned because I had to figure out how to install netperf on my system. BTW, the Debian iperf version 2 binary doesn't work from the Debian distro because it does not support the iperf --enhancedreports flag.

Actually, iperf2 deprecated the --enhancedreports flag and replaced it with --enhanced in 2.0.14.a. The current Flent version checks for this.

I have made many changes to the iperf2 runner; however, I have yet to submit a pull request because I made some changes that aren't fit for upstream. At some point, I will create a pull request that will update the iperf2 runner with more functionality.