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From: God <atm@sdk.ca>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: TCP capture effect :: estimate queue length ?
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On Mon, 14 May 2001, Andi Kleen 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>