How to Install and Uninstall sockperf Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: December 28,2024

1. Install "sockperf" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install sockperf on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                sockperf
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "sockperf" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall sockperf on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                sockperf
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the sockperf package on Kali Linux

Package: sockperf
Version: 3.7-1
Installed-Size: 4513
Maintainer: Debian HPC Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
Size: 655412
SHA256: 2a72021d3c605265405fe5ac8dc40dcb1adc98c92b0f62c22780a9480ea3d2f2
SHA1: 58e757ba16758f5fbe91d766e71a3d2fb90d90d2
MD5sum: 0c3487a9a026c06a76818ba41529188f
Description: Network benchmarking utility for testing latency and throughput
sockperf is a network benchmarking utility over socket API that was
designed for testing performance (latency and throughput) of
high-performance systems (it is also good for testing performance of
regular networking systems as well). It covers most of the socket API
calls and options.
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Specifically, in addition to the standard throughput tests, sockperf,
does the following:
* Measure latency of each discrete packet at sub-nanosecond
resolution (using TSC register that counts CPU ticks with very low
overhead).
* Does the above for both ping-pong mode and for latency under load
mode. This means that measuring latency of single packets even under
load of millions Packets Per Second (without waiting for reply of
packet before sending subsequent packet on time)
* Enable spike analysis by providing histogram, with various
percentiles of the packets' latencies (for example: median, min, max,
99% percentile, and more), (this is in addition to average and
standard deviation). Also, sockperf provides full log with all
packet's tx/rx times that can be further analyzed with external
tools, such as MS-Excel or matplotlib - All this without affecting
the benchmark itself.
* Support MANY optional settings for good coverage of socket API and
network configurations, while still keeping very low overhead in the
fast path to allow cleanest results.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://github.com/Mellanox/sockperf
Tag: admin::benchmarking, implemented-in::c++, interface::commandline,
role::program
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/s/sockperf/sockperf_3.7-1_amd64.deb