Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 13:16:32 -0700 From: Justin C.Walker <justin@mac.com> To: <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>, "<freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: UDP - Reliable throughput mesaurement Message-ID: <20010526201635.WNXH16646.femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com@grinch> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0105261246550.19467-100000@freke.odin.pdx.edu>
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On Saturday, May 26, 2001, at 12:52 PM, Harkirat Singh wrote: > > Thanks for your reply, I looked at Netpref and that even I used for > measuring thruput in case of TCP. I felt that instead of writing my own > reliable application over UDP I would use some standard > mesaurement tool. > > In Netperf they have a option called "UDP_RR" UDP Request/Reply, > will this > take care of loss? I feel that there must be some tool which I am not > aware of. There are no tools that I'm aware of that do what you want directly. The doc that comes with 'netperf' isn't exactly complete in its description of what UDP_RR does. The implication of the man page is that it complains if a request times out. Check the source is my advice. Regards, Justin --- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large * Institute for General Semantics | Director of Technology | When LuteFisk is outlawed Nexsi Systems Corp. | Only outlaws will have 1959 Concourse Drive | LuteFisk San Jose, CA 95131 | *--------------------------------------*-------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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