i looked into debian and fedora packaging and they both doesn't enable dcccp,sdp,sctp protocol. Debian only enable demo mode.

Demo mode is helpful to have result during test is running (with -D). This is useful to see behaviour of external program during a test, like using disk i/o.

Output is like this:
hkvm-seblu-1 ~ 130 # netperf -H 1.1.1.2 -D 1 -T omni -l 3600
MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 1.1.1.2 (1.1.1.2) port 0 AF_INET : demo : cpu bind
Interim result: 6162.93 10^6bits/s over 1.00 seconds ending at 1330954652.980
Interim result: 6774.16 10^6bits/s over 1.00 seconds ending at 1330954653.980
Interim result: 7582.37 10^6bits/s over 1.00 seconds ending at 1330954654.980

About adding extra protocol:

xti test suite, doesn't compile. stxnet library is needed: http://www.openss7.org/download.html

dlpi test suite, doesn't compile. headers not in archlinux are missing.

dccp compile, but print the following warning:
netsh.h:71:2: warning: #warning This platform is missing one of sock_dccp ipproto_dccp or sol_dccp [-Wcpp]. This can be avoided by loading dccp module during compilation. Anyway, doesn't seems to be an issue if module is not loaded during compile (http://www.netperf.org/pipermail/netperf-talk/2010-August/000736.html)

about sdp, it doesn't compile with --enable-demo enabled. I'm looking for a solution.

No issues with sctp, exs, dccp. I will add it.

I see this package lack of a rc.d launcher for netserver. I will add it.

i have moved lksctp-tools to community to allow support of sctp.

i push a new version (netperf-2.5.0-4) which enable dccp (which works as expected) and add netserver scripts.

i postpone addition of sctp, which when used, let netserver with dead childrens. Issue is reported to the maintainer.

About sdp, i quote maintainer:
"Meanwhile I'm not sure how far I ever got towards making sure the SDP tests worked in the first place"

i see other tests cause netperf to let some child in ugly state. No reason to avoid sctp to be enabled.