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Re: Tools to measure TCP connection speed

  • From: Christopher Morrow
  • Date: Mon Mar 10 10:06:22 2008
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On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Joe Shen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  hi,
>
>   is there any tool could measue e2e TCP connection
>  speed?
>
>
>   e.g. we want to measue the delay between the TCP SYN
>  and receiving SYN ACK packet.

So, all you want to know is basic RTT? Do you want to know about the
network? or the hosts? or the whole 'system' ?

One simple thing might be to just use WireShark which can calculate
the various timings on an individual tcp-session basis. Another poster
suggests tcpdump, also a fine solution...

-Chris