This inventory consists of a small selection of freely available network performance measurement tools.
Network performance is the ability of the network to deliver the products of specific applications.
There are tools available that can provide measurement of aspects of network performance that provides the developer with the means of measuring performance over many different networking arrangements in an IP network. N etPerf Netperf is designed around the basic client-server model. A connection is used to pass test configuration information and results to and from a remote system. Regardless of the type of test being run, the control connection will be a TCP connection using BSD sockets. I meter Imeter utilises preconfigured scripting to illustrate the analysis of ping data with the intention of measuring long-term internet connectivity levels.