* Add configurable timeout for the setup of the control connection.
This is specified using the new --connect-timeout option, with an
integer parameter in ms. The iperf3 client will wait for this
amount of time for the setup of the control connection to the
server. If this option is not given, the OS default for TCP
connection setup is used. Specifying a smaller connection timeout
allows faster detection of a down / unresponsive iperf3 server.
The implementation uses a variation on the timeout_connect()
function from OpenBSD's netcat utility.
Fixes#216.
Add an optional mode that requires clients to authenticate with the server.
In this mode, clients need to provide a username and a password, which are checked against a password file on the server. The authentication credentials are protected by an RSA public keypair...the encrypted credentials are sent along with the test parameters.
Operationally the use of this feature places the following additional requirements on the build and installation of iperf3:
o The presence of the OpenSSL headers and libraries to build iperf3, and the libraries available on the client and server at runtime.
o Generation of an RSA public keypair; the private part is used by the server and the public part must be distributed to the clients.
o Username/password pairs for all authorized users, to be stored in a file on the server.
o Loose time synchronization between the server and clients (to within approximately 30 seconds).
o Appropriate command-line flags given on the client and server.
Note that iperf3 can be built and run as before, without fulfilling any of these requirements.
Partial documentation for this feature is included in this commit. It is anticipated that additional documentation text and editing will follow this merge.
Submitted by @ralcini. First suggested by @codyhanson in pull request #242.
* Remove unused hstrerror(), bad nanosleep() message in configure.ac (#503)
* Remove dead code involving h_errno and hstrerror()
h_errno was formerly set as a side effect of a failed
gethostbyname(3) call, but this function has been
deprecated.
Note this option only has a long option flag; we're running out of
letters for short options.
Based heavily on a patch submitted in Issue 131 (SCTP support for
iperf); I added support for FreeBSD and did some other packaging and
documentation improvements.
We probably shouldn't tie SCTP support to looking specifically for
Linux or FreeBSD; we probably leave support enabled all the time if
possible, possibly with some configure-time checks.
Also bumped package id from 3.0a4 to 3.0a5.
This changeset consists of a one-line edit to configure.ac, plus
about fifty kilolines of diffs to a bunch of other config files
generated by bootstrap.sh.
* Added -Wall to CXXFLAGS and CFLAGS. This generated a lot of noise in the
autotools generated files.
* Added initial AUTHORS file. This is incomplete, but it's a start.
2008-03-12 Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@gmail.com>
* Rework threading. This is done by having a condition variable for the reporting
thread rather than using sched_yield and/or usleep.
* Address performance issues on non Linux systems by avoiding system calls
which are expensive on platforms other than Linux.
* Fixes from FreeBSD ports: max_size_t is now 64 bits and not Iperf does not
exit on ENOBUFS.
