Linktest can be configured to test MPI or TCP without the miniPMI library. In the case of MPI no additional work is necessary, aside from executing with `mpiexe` or the like, and linktest can be used as above. When testing TCP communication without the miniPMI library the cluster configuration needs to be specified explicitly via the following four environment variables: `LINKTEST_TCP_SIZE`, `LINKTEST_TCP_RANK`, `LINKTEST_TCP_IPADDR_<<<RANK>>>` and `LINKTEST_TCP_PORT_<<<RANK>>>`.