[ofa-general] Re: desired netperf mods?

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Rick Jones <rick.jones2 at hp.com>:
> Subject: Re: desired netperf mods?
> 
> Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) wrote:
> >Rick,
> >
> >SDP is easy to get with netperf by running "LD_PRELOAD=libsdp.so
> >netperf/neterver", so in my opinion SDP is already covered.
> 
> The one and IMO very big worry I have about using LD_PRELOAD is that it 
> does not change the netperf test banner.  So, it leaves one very 
> vulnerable to cut-and-paste errors and not realizing that something was 
> SDP when it really was.
> 
> The advantage then (again IMO) of an explicit SDP test is that the test 
> banners will be right.

True. Further, libsdp might be misconfigured on the system.

A simple way would be to add a flag to netstat that forces
a specific address family, and show it in the banner.

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