[v6test] Test methodology
David Malone
dwmalone at maths.tcd.ie
Thu Jan 17 09:58:58 UTC 2008
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 11:01:27PM -0600, Kevin Day wrote:
> 5) On the v4 side, give users a 20-30MB "sample movie". Log as much
> data as possible about the transfer of this video... Average/max
> download speed, MSS/MTU, RTT, TTL, packet loss %, origin ASN, etc.
> This is large enough to get reasonably accurate statistics to rule out
> slowness due to TCP slow start, or getting unlucky with rare packet
> loss. Store this with the user's tracking cookie.
If possible, it might be nice to record enough to see if the user
is suffering from broken PMTU discovery because of an ICMP blackhole.
David.
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