[124261] in North American Network Operators' Group
things to test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Sun Mar 28 02:32:44 2010
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 08:32:08 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I've been pondering what aspects of a residential broadband connection
that would be worthwhile in testing, which would also be some kind of
incentive for ISPs to start doing "better".
Some things that comes to mind:
speed
latency to some points geographically near the user
MTU of the connection
If PMTUD works or not
queueing (FIFO or something "better")
antispoofing (BCP38) compliance
filtering (IPv6 transition protocols for instance, lots more possible)
buffer depth ingress/egress
ECN
ISP provided DNS resolver properties (DNSSEC, EDNS etc)
I'm sure there are lots more, and this could probably not be done using a
web browser driven application, but instead would have to be an
application, thus harder to get people to use generally.
Any work being done in this area already that someone can point to? I'd
also like to use some of this tech to do "web server tests", especially
when it comes to PMTUD working, especially when for a IPv6 world it would
be nice to have an easily available testing suite for these basic
mechanisms.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
