Max Bandwidth (maxb)

A utility for testing maximum bandwidth between systems.

The current project page is located here: https://github.com/blb2/maxb.

Building

CMake is used to build this project. There are plenty of ways of using CMake, so choose the way that you prefer to work best.

Building on Command-line

If cmake is not in your system's PATH, then feel free to add it temporarily with one of the following commands:

Command Prompt:
```
PATH=%PROGRAMFILES%\CMake\bin;%PATH%
```

PowerShell:

$Env:PATH += ";$Env:PROGRAMFILES\CMake\bin"

Git Bash:

PATH=$(cygpath -u "$PROGRAMFILES")/CMake/bin:$PATH

The following are steps taken to produce your first build:

Initialize CMake from the project's root directory:
```
cmake -B build
```
To have CMake be verbose when building, use something like this:
```
cmake -B build -D CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON
```
Of course, when running the --build command later on, you can specify -v to cmake and it will probably accomplish the same thing.

CMake will choose the native platform of the host machine when building. You can change that with the -A argument. For example, you're on a 64-bit Windows platform, but wish to build for 32-bit:
```
cmake -B build -A Win32
```
If using CMake 3.27 or greater, and building on Windows with Visual Studio, it is preferable to specify the version of the Windows SDK with the following argument:
```
cmake -B build -A version=10.0
```
The following are examples of performing the actual build step:
- If on Windows with Visual Studio, you can open maxb.sln from within the build directory that was created above.
```
cmake --open build
```
- To build without an IDE, but strictly on command-line, use the following command:
```
cmake --build build
```
- The chosen generator used by CMake might support multiple configurations. For example, when using Visual Studio, if the configuration is omitted, the it will perform a debug build by default. In order to change the kind of configuration, please specify it:
```
cmake --build build --config Debug
cmake --build build --config Release
cmake --build build --config RelWithDebInfo
cmake --build build --config MinSizeRel
```

Usage

At the moment, this application supports testing for UDP bandwidth.

Benchmark how much data can be transferred within a specific time period. The time period is specified in seconds. In this example, 10 seconds is used:
```
maxb 10.28.1.130 10
```

License

maxb is licensed under version 3 of the GPL or later. See LICENSE.txt for more info.