[102954] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Tools to measure TCP connection speed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Mon Mar 10 10:05:25 2008
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:58:30 -0500
From: "Christopher Morrow" <christopher.morrow@gmail.com>
To: "Joe Shen" <joe_hznm@yahoo.com.sg>
Cc: NANGO <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <397392.14279.qm@web76302.mail.sg1.yahoo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Joe Shen <joe_hznm@yahoo.com.sg> 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
