Re: My planned work on networking stack

From: Andre Oppermann <andre_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 16:28:30 +0100
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
Received on Tue Mar 02 2004 - 06:28:31 UTC

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