[109658] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Recommendation of Tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (grenville armitage)
Wed Dec 3 17:40:44 2008
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:40:14 +1100
From: grenville armitage <garmitage@swin.edu.au>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Lee, Steven (NSG Malaysia) wrote:
> Hi all, do you have any recommended tools that can measure latency/delay hop by hop basis? Preferable the tools can measure the running (live) traffic.
>
> Regards,
> Steven Lee
Not necessarily hop-by-hop, and measures RTT rather than one-way delay,
but if you can packet-sniff at two points in your network our SPP
(Synthetic Packet Pairs) tool for passive round trip time estimation
might be of interest - http://caia.swin.edu.au/tools/spp/documentation.html
Key benefits - you don't need tight clock synchronisation between
measurement points, and you can measure RTT using existing traffic
flowing across your network (no additional traffic needs to be
injected). Key downside - its a research project, only tested under
FreeBSD, and may be entirely unsuitable :)
cheers,
gja