Can IPerf be installed on IOS XE 16.8.1 Cat 9k

[michael.burke]

Looking for a throughput testing solution on the 9K's similar to using ttcp on previous IOS routers.  Has anyone tried installing IPerf on IOS XE?  or some other solution.

[Collin Clark · Accepted solution]

You could create a container with Linux/IPerf on it and run it in IOS-XE or I have heard that you can install some packages in the Guestshell on-box.
https://community.cisco.com/t5/networking-blogs/getting-started-with-service-containers/ba-p/3660954
https://community.cisco.com/t5/developer-general-blogs/introducing-python-and-guest-shell-on-ios-xe-16-5/ba-p/3661394
HTH

[michael.burke]

Thanks, i'm going to try and get a linux .ova installed and let you know how it goes.

[michael.burke]

Got this running using guest shell and iperf. However with the limitation being that guestshell only has access to the managament port on the 9300 Not useful as a network testing tool since i'm trying to test my network not my management network. Thanks for the direction though.

[Jonny190]

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@michael.burke wrote:
Got this running using guest shell and iperf. However with the limitation being that guestshell only has access to the managament port on the 9300 Not useful as a network testing tool since i'm trying to test my network not my management network. Thanks for the direction though.

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Can you confirm how you got this working? 

[michael.burke]

It's been a year and after finding that it would only work on the MGMT interface it was useless to me.  I believe I followed the links to install a linux ova in guestshell and then downloaded iperf from the website and installed it with whatever package manager the Linux OS supported.  Sorry I don't have step by step instructions, but I believe I just used the post marked solution and the links inside it.

[g.fabre]

After some time searching for the same, I finally found DEVNET-1695 session and successfully configured iperf3 on ASR router with 17.3 version 

link to presentation is https://www.ciscolive.com/c/dam/r/ciscolive/us/docs/2018/pdf/DEVNET-1695.pdf

really helpful, worked on 1st time (contrary to many other configurations I previously found)

Hope that helps some other people coming here  

[usman.patel]

Hi, link no longer works.

If you have the PDF can you share it?

Thanks.

[Michael_]

Looks like it may be on GitHub

https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/byrne-workshops/tree/master/DEVWKS-1695