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In message <[email protected]>, Paul Bradford writes: > >Charles, > One thing I have a hard time explaining to some customers is that >latency is one thing.... what does it tell me... it tells me that from >one hop to another things are a bit slow.... the real important thing is >how are you're throughput speeds... I started a thread a while back asking >a similar question... is ping/traceroute a good measurement of throughput >on the link? the unanimous response was use pathchar or mtr or ttcp which >all give you a better guestimate of how your link is doing performance >wise.. Latency and packet loss both put an upper bound on throughput. See, for example, http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm98/tp/abs_25.html or draft-ietf-pilc-error-06.txt --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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