[124275] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: things to test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Lonvick)
Mon Mar 29 09:19:52 2010
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:19:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Chris Lonvick <clonvick@cisco.com>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1003280822110.28550@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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Hi,
I'll toss in that I2 and GEANT have been developing the PerfSONAR toolset.
http://www.perfsonar.net/
Regards,
Chris
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
>
>
