netpipe-tcp: help or alternative?

[Paul Mackinney <paul@mackinney.net>]

netperf was recommended to me as a basic tool for checking network
performance, a search through the archives led me to netpipe-tcp which
fails uniformly. Per suggestions in the man pages, I run the following:

remote host:
# ./NPtcp -r
Resetting connection after every trial
Send and receive buffers are 16384 and 87380 bytes
(A bug in Linux doubles the requested buffer sizes)

local host:
# NPtcp -h 192.168.1.33
Send and receive buffers are 16384 and 87380 bytes
(A bug in Linux doubles the requested buffer sizes)
Now starting the main loop
  0:       1 bytes   4999 times --> NetPIPE: error reading
	synchronization string: Connection reset by peer


The man pages are out of date (several documented options contradict the
binary's useage statement) but nothing I've found on the net seems to
indicate problems of this nature. Suggestions?

TIA, PM
-- 
Paul Mackinney
paul@mackinney.net