Netstress is a client/server utility designed to stress and benchmark network activity of a given ethernet device or path using simulated (random) real world data and packet sizes instead of fixed data and packet sizes.

Main features: - Easy command line usage. - Random packet sizes. - Random data. - Read, write, or read & write (default) testing and reporting. - Benchmarking results.

netstress is useful for network tests across switches, routers and firewall systems.