Network through-put checking with IPERF/ NETPERF / VNSTAT

IP server: 10.0.0.1
IP client: 10.0.0.2

2 device connect with each other via ethenet switch

1) IPERF

On Server:
#sudo apt-get install iperf
# iperf -s


On Client
#sudo apt-get install iperf
#iperf -c 10.0.0.1 -i 1 -t 20

See the result on both server and client

2) NETPERF and VNSTAT

On Server, install vnstat
#sudo apt-get install vnstat
Run vnstat to listen network traffic (change limit configuration in /etc/vnstat.conf as your needs)

#vnstat -i <interface> -l


On Client
#sudo apt-get install netperf

Run netperf
#netperf  -H 10.0.0.1

(or run multi-process if you want to create a huge traffic
netperf  -H 10.0.0.1 &
netperf  -H 10.0.0.1 &
netperf  -H 10.0.0.1 &
netperf  -H 10.0.0.1 &
netperf  -H 10.0.0.1
)