Re: netperf and endianness

[Rick Jones <rick.jones2@xxxxxx>]

On 06/07/2012 06:09 PM, David Miller wrote:
> Rick, I tried to use netperf between my x86-64 and sparc64 systems and
> nothing works.
>
> Does netperf do it's messaging in cpu byte order only?
>
> I don't see anything in netperf-2.5.x that translates into and out of
> network byte order :-/

David -

netperf sends things in network byte order.  It is all burried in 
send/recv_request and send/recv_response (in src/netlib.c).  Over the 
years I've run netperf between different endian systems with success. 
Chances are good that there is a netperf version mismatch between the 
sides - at least 99 times out of 10 that is what is happening when 
netperf doesn't work (other than with firewalls in place).

happy benchmarking,

rick jones
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