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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>
To: God <atm@sdk.ca>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP capture effect :: estimate queue length ?
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 03:06:45 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010515030645.A15896@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010514234604.A4694@gruyere.muc.suse.de> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105142339470.23642-100000@scotch.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105142339470.23642-100000@scotch.homeip.net>; from atm@sdk.ca on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:49:16PM -0400

On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:49:16PM -0400, God wrote:

> > Packets are dropped when a device queue
> > fills, and when one sender is much faster than the other the faster sender
> > often wins the race, while the packets of the slower one get dropped.
> 
> [.....]
> 
> Speaking of queues on routers/servers, does such a util exist that would
> measure (even a rough estimate), what level of congestion (queueing) is
> happening between point A and B ?  I'd be curious how badly congested some
> things upstream from me are......   I know I can use ping or
> traceroute ... but they don't report queueing or bursting.  Both measure
> latency and packetloss ... short of stareing at a running ping that is
> ... <G>

Pathchar, yet another Van Jacobsen toy does this.  Unfortunately the old
and rotten pre-version you can find in ftp.ee.lbl.gov:/pathchar/ is afaik
the last one.  In the past it served me well you find about how ISPs are
lying ...  100mbit backbone = fast ethernet in their computer room ...

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-15  6:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-14 21:15 TCP capture effect (was Re: Linux TCP impotency) Samuel Meder
2001-05-14 21:25 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-14 21:46 ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-15  3:49   ` TCP capture effect :: estimate queue length ? God
2001-05-15  6:06     ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2001-05-15  7:50       ` TCP capture effect :: estimate queue length ? :: pathchar God
2001-05-15  3:54   ` TCP capture effect :: estimate queue length ? David S. Miller
2001-05-15  4:44     ` God
2001-05-15 11:33 Joerg Pommnitz

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