[LEDE-DEV] iperf unmaintained

[Felix Fietkau]

On 2016-05-10 15:38, John Crispin wrote:
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> On 10/05/2016 15:35, Bert Vermeulen wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> The iperf package appears to be unmaintained, the maintainers directing
>> people to iperf3 instead (see https://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf/).
>> 
>> There is a fork of the original iperf package that's seeing some
>> maintenance, named iperf2: https://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf2/
>> 
>> However iperf3 is in LEDE as well, and works perfectly fine. It is a
>> full code rewrite of iperf, and appears to be (mostly?) cmdline-compatible.
>> 
>> I see no reason to keep both: iperf3 is the better project here.
>> 
>> Does anyone have a compelling reason to keep iperf around? This would
>> mean switching to the iperf2 project -- either way the original needs to
>> go.
>> 
>> 
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> 
> i would vote to drop iperf and ask people to use iperf3
NACK. iperf3 cannot do multi-threading, so it is useless for many
performance tests that I do.

- Felix