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Brooks Davis wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:37:41AM +0900, Lars Eggert wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Wes Peters wrote:
> > >On Monday 01 March 2004 14:18, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> > >
> > >>[] establish a testbed for testing and qualification of TCP performance
> > >>   and optimizations over a wide range of network conditions (types,
> > >>   speeds, packet loss ratios, out of order, etc).  (started)
> > >
> > >Be sure to coordinate with the donations officer for help in getting
> > >equipment you may need.
> >
> > this sounds like something you could do with planetlab
> > (http://planet-lab.org/). Do you have access? (Or maybe I misunderstood
> > what you meant by "testbed".)
> 
> From the list of metrics, Emulab (http://www.emulab.net/) is probably
> more what he's thinking, but we probably ought to let Andre speak for
> him self. :-)

No, I want to have something that emulates real-world line conditions.
For example ADSL connections and so on.  Or links Europe-USA etc.  This
is not about performance of server applications like apache benchmarking.

-- 
Andre