------------------------------------------------------------------------ WinNetTest Application ---------------------- Version: 1.12 Date: March 27th, 2000' Written by: David Fernández, Jorge Nuñez, Ana Sánz and Enrique Vélez Telematics Department Universidad Politécnica de Madrid e-mail: david@dit.upm.es www: www.dit.upm.es/bti Copyright: DIT-UPM, 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WinNetTest is a network performance measurement application for Windows 9X/NT/2000. It is conceptually similar to the classic unix ttcp tool, but includes much more options to define the traffic characteristics of the test, and it includes a Windows user interface. Currently, supports tests over TCP and UDP protocols either using IPv4 or IPv6 (it has been tested with Microsoft Research's IPv6 implementation). Quick user's guide: ------------------- To use WinNetTest to meassure performance between two machines, you have to start the application as a server in one of the machines and as a client in the other one: 1 - Server side. Start WinNetTest with "-d" option. The application will start to listen on TCP port 2001 for client connections. 2 - Client side. Start WinNetTest without options. Through the user interface, define the test you want to carry out. Define the destination address (the server address), the destination port, and the characteristics of the test: duration, in terms of number of packests or time; speed in bps or pps; packet size; protocol, etc. 3 - Click on "Start Test" button on client side to start the test. When the test finishes, you will see the results (from the point of view of client and server) on the traces window. WinNetTest as a Windows NT Service: ----------------------------------- The server part of the application can be configured in Windows NT as a Service, in order to have it launched at startup. To do it: 1 - Copy the winnettest_service.exe to a permanent localtion (for example, to c:\winnt\system32 directory). 2 - Install it as a Service by typing: > winnettest_service /install After installation, you can start the service for the first time from the "Services" console in "Control Panel". The next time you restart your machine, the service will be started automatically at boot time. If you want to uninstall the service, just type: > winnettest_service /uninstall Command line options: --------------------- -d start in Server mode (window minimized) -t activate debug traces -a
sets the default destination address (for client mode only) -p sets the default port -i sets the defauls IP version (6=IPv6, 4=IPv4) -TCP start with TCP as default protocol -UDP start with UDP as default protocol