[32586] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Traceroute versus other performance measurement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Charlap)
Wed Nov 29 14:21:01 2000
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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:19:40 -0500
From: David Charlap <david.charlap@marconi.com>
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> Definitions:
>
> n-tuple: a set of data of n discrete elements
> 5-tuple: dest addr, src addr, dest port, src port,
> tos/diffserv
> 1-tuple: dest addr [or dest prefix]
I thought the 5th tuple of 5-tuple is usually the L4 protocol (TCP, UDP,
ICMP, etc.). If your algorithm also takes DS values into account, you'd
have a 6-tuple.
-- David
