This post is about installing iPerf2 from source. The target machine used as an example is an Apple MacBook Pro 2023 with an Apple M2 Pro chip.

Table of Contents

• Dependencies
• Download source
• Make
• Test
• Run!
• Explore the arguments

Dependencies

Install dependencies with Homebrew:

brew install gcc automake

Download source

Go to https://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf2/, click on the Files tab, and download the .tar.gz file for your desired version.

In this post, I used 2.1.9 https://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf2/files/iperf-2.1.9.tar.gz/download.

Put it somewhere on your machine like ~/Downloads.

Extract and enter the directory using tar -xvf <archive> like so:

cd ~/Downloads
tar -xvf iperf-2.1.9.tar.gz
cd iperf-2.1.9

Make

If you’ve not already entered the directory from the previous step, do so now.

1. Run ./configure to configure the for our machine:

./configure

1. Compile iPerf2:

make

1. Install iPerf2

sudo make install

Test

Run iperf -v:

iperf -v
iperf version 2.1.9 (14 March 2023) pthreads

Run!

What do you think is being testing here when the server and client is on the same machine?

Explore the arguments

iperf -c <IP> -i 1 -w1M -P4 -t 60

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