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Created April 10, 2015 21:14
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  1. mshock created this gist Apr 10, 2015.
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    #!/bin/bash

    if ! [ -x "$(type -P iperf)" ]; then
    echo "ERROR: script requires iperf"
    echo "For Debian and friends get it with 'apt-get install iperf'"
    echo "If you have it, perhaps you don't have permissions to run it, try 'sudo $(basename $0)'"
    exit 1
    fi

    if [ "$#" -ne "2" ]; then
    echo "ERROR: script needs four arguments, where:"
    echo
    echo "1. Number of times to repeat test (e.g. 10)"
    echo "2. Host running 'iperf -s' (e.g. somehost)"
    echo
    echo "Example:"
    echo " $(basename $0) 10 somehost"
    echo
    echo "The above will run 'iperf -c' 10 times on the client and report totals and average."
    exit 1
    else
    runs=$1
    host=$2
    fi

    log=iperf.$host.log

    if [ -f $log ]; then
    echo removing $log
    rm $log
    fi

    echo "=================================================================="
    echo " Results"
    echo "=================================================================="
    echo " target host .... $host"
    echo "------------------------------------------------------------------"

    for run in $(seq 1 $runs); do
    iperf -c $host -f m >> $log
    echo -e " run $run: \t $(awk '/Bandwidth/ {getline}; END{print $7, $8}' $log)"
    done

    avg=$(awk -v runs=$runs '/Bandwidth/ {getline; sum+=$7; avg=sum/runs} END {print avg}' $log)


    echo "------------------------------------------------------------------"
    echo " average ....... $avg Mbits/sec"
    echo
    echo "see $log for details"