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On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Daniel Senie wrote: <SNIP> > > All the theory sounds great. Now, you've got a customer using the utility to > test a circuit between two boxes, and calls to complain that he's only > seeing 1/2 of the expected bandwidth, because Pathchar tells him he's > getting X, and we said we provisioned 2X. Perhaps it's just a customer > education issue. At the expense of using all their bandwidth ttcp should provide some reasonable measure of performance under those circumstances. > I think you're making assumptions about how load is shared on parallel > links. Often this is done by hashing the IP address or mac address of the > packets as a way to ensure there will be no packet reordering issues on the > parallel links. You can send traffic until you clog one of the two pipes, > but will never cause spill to the other link. > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli [email protected] Academic User Services [email protected] PGP Key Fingerprint: 1DE9 8FCA 51FB 4195 B42A 9C32 A30D 121E -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is clear that the arm of criticism cannot replace the criticism of arms. Karl Marx -- Introduction to the critique of Hegel's Philosophy of the right, 1843.
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