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Jim Pingle wrote:

There is already a package for iperf3 with a GUI.

But not useful: no quick servers selection (but the list of servers stable for a months, eve years..)

Maintaining a list of public servers is outside the scope of the package, and encouraging users to use a high-throughput package like this against a list of public servers is asking for trouble. Also see my answer on the other issue about relying on tests from the firewall itself (it's a bad practice).

Jim Pingle wrote:

Maintaining a list of public servers is outside the scope of the package, and encouraging users to use a high-throughput package like this against a list of public servers is asking for trouble. Also see my answer on the other issue about relying on tests from the firewall itself (it's a bad practice).

1. Maintaining the list of iperf/iperf3 servers is not a huge work, for last 4 YEARS list are the same +- 2 server
According to official iperf/iperf3 web https://iperf.fr/iperf-servers.php there are
2 servers - Americas
2 servers - Asia
8 servers - Europe

2. Pushing the fw adminstrator each time to go to official iperf/iperf3 web, then copy/past server address, then choose additional params - BAD USER EXPERIENCE. (Errors/misstype is server address and setting possible, extra time spending, etc...)
We need less typing and more thinking.

3. According "against a list of public servers is asking for trouble": from where sysadmins get the name of public servers ? Right, from the Google -> the same official iperf/iperf3 web https://iperf.fr/iperf-servers.php.
Another one but reasonable and important thing - all public iperf/iperf3 servers prepared on loading from many requests from the world. (I contact with some admins on that servers, they confirm about HUGE gap to overload.
So, absent of official servers list in pfSense iperf page - just nothing about making extra loading on the servers from iperf/iperf3 official list.

Thank You!