Incorrect Values for Units on "UDP Bandwidth" Field

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run jperf
2. Enter any number in field labled "UDP Bandwidth"
3. Select "Kbytes/sec" in the drop-down list next to the field in step 2.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Option "-b 512K" is set on iperf command line. This will yield a bandwidth
of 512 kbps (kiloBITS per second) not 512 KBps (KiloBYTES per second).
Thus, the GUI does not match the iperf implementation.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Jperf 2.0/Iperf 2.0.4/Linux(RHE)

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by dennytr...@gmail.com on 12 Jan 2009 at 2:04

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In response to Comment #1 (which I got in my email but don't see on this web 
page):

I don't see the information you describe at the site 
http://openmaniak.com/iperf.php#iperf-b. This issue is related to the "-b" 
(bandwidth) option, which seems to be unique in how the "K" and "M" symbols are 
interpreted. From the iperf man page:

       -b, --bandwidth n[KM]
              set target bandwidth to n bits/sec (default 1 Mbit/sec).   This
              setting requires UDP (-u).

It would seem from this docuemntation that the "M" indicates Mbit/sec, so it 
stands 
to reason that "K" indicates Kbit/sec, not Kbyte/sec.

Furthermore, when you actually run jperf in UDP mode with the bandwidth set to 
512 
Kbytes/sec, you can see from the iperf output that the badwidth used is 512 
kbits/sec, not 512 Kbytes/sec.

Original comment by dennytr...@gmail.com on 8 May 2009 at 12:59

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even i faced the same problem ,i have struggled for 1 week whether i am doing 
my work
wrong or some thing wrong with the jperf,same problem has been for me,there is
maistake in KILOBYTES AND KILOBITS,even u give KILOBYTES its taking the 
bandwidth as
kilobits,i have checked 200 times really which wasted a week of time

Original comment by bangaral...@gmail.com on 27 Jun 2009 at 10:24

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can any one give me the reason why it happened,pls reply to 
bangaraluri@yahoo.com

Original comment by bangaral...@gmail.com on 27 Jun 2009 at 10:27

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Yes, iperf use bits/sec as the UDP bandwidth unit.
Here is a patch to fix this.

Original comment by solrex on 22 Jul 2009 at 4:44

Attachments:

• UDP_BW_Unit.patch

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Hi all, I fixed this error and put binary packets on my site. You can download
deb/jar/src packets of modified jperf 2.0.2 from http://share.solrex.cn/ibuild/.

NOTE: I have packed all *.jar in lib/ into the final jar file, so you can start 
jperf
simply by typing: java -jar jperf-2.0.2-solrex1.jar (in case you are not a 
Debian user).

Original comment by solrex on 22 Jul 2009 at 9:56

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please, anyone could compile and upload it to anywhere?

Original comment by txe...@gmail.com on 27 Jan 2011 at 4:12