Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 16:28:30 +0100 From: Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My planned work on networking stack Message-ID: <4044A81E.C5517D08@freebsd.org> References: <4043B6BA.B847F081@freebsd.org> <200403011507.52238.wes@softweyr.com> <4043E565.6070703@netlab.nec.de> <20040302014319.GA24639@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <4044936F.B042C476@freebsd.org> <20040302145212.GB30219@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 03:00:15PM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > Brooks Davis wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:37:41AM +0900, Lars Eggert wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Wes Peters wrote: > > > > >On Monday 01 March 2004 14:18, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > > > > > > > > >>[] establish a testbed for testing and qualification of TCP performance > > > > >> and optimizations over a wide range of network conditions (types, > > > > >> speeds, packet loss ratios, out of order, etc). (started) > > > > > > > > > >Be sure to coordinate with the donations officer for help in getting > > > > >equipment you may need. > > > > > > > > this sounds like something you could do with planetlab > > > > (http://planet-lab.org/). Do you have access? (Or maybe I misunderstood > > > > what you meant by "testbed".) > > > > > > From the list of metrics, Emulab (http://www.emulab.net/) is probably > > > more what he's thinking, but we probably ought to let Andre speak for > > > him self. :-) > > > > No, I want to have something that emulates real-world line conditions. > > For example ADSL connections and so on. Or links Europe-USA etc. This > > is not about performance of server applications like apache benchmarking. > > This is definatly something you could do with Emulab (that's why we have > one), but if you just need to simulate agrigate link characteristics, > Emulab would be massive overkill. I'm only interesed in aggrigated link characteristics. -- Andre
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