BE SURE TO READ THE MANUAL. EVEN THOUGH IT MAY BE OUTDATED. This is a brief readme file for the netperf4 TCP/UDP/sockets/etc performance benchmark. This is here mostly as a boot-strap. The real information is in the manual, which can be found in doc/ in the directory where you are finding this readme file. The sources should be (mostly) in src/ Of course, as of this writing, the manual in doc/ is actually for netperf2... :( So, all that "BE SURE TO READ THE MANUAL" business is pretty much bunk for now. Still... BE SURE TO READ THE MANUAL. EVEN THOUGH IT MAY BE OUTDATED. Pointers: The netperf4 benchmark depends on libxml2 (aka libxml-2.0). You must have libxml2 and its development environment and utilities (eg xmlcatalog) installed prior to building netperf4. The netperf4 benchmark also depends on several components of glib-2.0. You must have glib-2.0 and its development environment installed prior to building netperf4. Further, netperf4 depends on the pkg-config utility. You must have pkg-config installed prior to building netperf4. In the future, netperf4 may add gtk+2.0 as a dependency. If your platform does not have one or more of these dependencies best start getting them ported somehow. If that is not possible, consider using netperf2 rather than netperf4. There is a COPYRIGHT file included. It is called COPYING because that is what autosomethingorother wanted. Netperf4 is covered by version 2 of the GNU Public License with an exception granted to link netperf4 with OpenSSL. If there are other useful libraries with issues similar to OpenSSL (whatever they may be, the HP Legal Eagles said I needed an exception for OpenSSL...) it is likely an exception will be added for them as well. Feel free to report results in public forums, but please be excruciatingly complete in your description of the test environment. At some point it is hoped there will be a public netperf4 database to which people can submit results. There is an Internet mailing list devoted to netperf. Both netperf4 and netperf2 (ie the original netperf) are discussed there. It is called netperf-talk and it is hosted on netperf.org. Subscription requests are handled via http://www.netperf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/netperf-talk Please DO NOT SEND subscription requests to netperf-talk! Your message will be rejected because only subscribers can send email to netperf-talk@netperf.org. It may seem a bit draconian, but is done to minimize spam on the mailing list. If you run into severe difficulties, or are just feeling chatty, please feel free to drop some email to me - Rick Jones . Be sure to include a meaningful subject lines (including netperf in the subject is helpful) and as much context (including cutting and pasting *actual* error messages) as you can. happy benchmarking, rick jones BE SURE TO READ THE MANUAL. EVEN THOUGH IT MAY BE OUTDATED.