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Hao
Asked: 2011-06-16 23:28:03 +0800 CST

iperf connect failed: Connection refused

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iperf -c 192.168.3.2 -i 2
connect failed: Connection refused

3.2 is another machine. I think the port might be blocked.

How can I make this work?

linux iperf failed

3 Answers

  1. You also get a "connection refused" error when you use an iperf v3 client to send to an iperf v2 server.

    The message is slightly different though:

    iperf3: error - unable to connect to server: Connection refused

    As the iperf3 doc states, they are not compatible (at least up to version 3.1.2). You can check the version on both server and client with

    iperf -v
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  2. I doubt that this is a firewall issue. Usually, firewalls employ the DROP rule for packets that are not allowed. A "connection refused" means that there is no application listening on the port it tries to connect to. The destination host indicates this with a corresponding ICMP message to the source.

    In order to run iperf you must have a server running on the machine which you iperf to. To do this run iperf -s on the server. After that you can then run iperf -c <server IP or hostname> -i 2

    After running this you will get an ouput that looks something like this:

    ------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to <server IP>, TCP port 5000
TCP window size:   256 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  3] local 123.123.123.123 port 4000 connected with 123.123.123.123 port 5000
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.1 GBytes  1.09 Gbits/sec
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  3. Try turning off any firewall on the machines. On many linux distros, you can do 

    service firewall off

    to disable the firewall.

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