My rule of thumb is "if you have to use options with iperf to get decent performance, you're doing something wrong":What about do you get with "iperf -c <server> -w 256k -P 4" ?
Code:
(0:50) host:/sysprog/terry# iperf -c test2
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Client connecting to test2, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 32.0 KByte (default)
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[ 3] local 10.20.30.40 port 23245 connected with 10.20.30.42 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 11.3 GBytes 9.73 Gbits/sec