Welcome

Welcome to the home of Flent: The FLExible Network Tester. Flent is a Python wrapper to run multiple simultaneous network benchmarking tool instances (e.g. netperf/iperf/ping) and aggregate the results. It was previously known as 'netperf-wrapper'.

There's a short paper (pdf) describing some of the design goals of Flent.

Getting started

Install Flent as per the instructions below, then see the Quick-start section to get going.

For more information, see the full documentation or search for specific content.

Installing Flent

Installing Flent can be done in several ways, depending on your operating system:

• Ubuntu users: Add the tohojo/flent PPA.
• Debian (and Ubuntu) users: Use the Pre-built packages from the Open Build Service.
• Arch Linux users: Install 'flent' from the AUR.
• Other Linux and OSX with Macbrew:Install from the Python cheese shop: pip install flent

Get involved

Getting involved is easy:

• View the source code or issue tracker on GitHub
• Subscribe to the mailing lists