From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 26 12: 8:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mark9.vladsempire.net (hutch-720.hutchtel.net [206.10.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DE0037B422; Sat, 26 May 2001 12:08:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from mark9.vladsempire.net (mark9.vladsempire.net [10.0.0.97]) by mark9.vladsempire.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 388F22AC; Sat, 26 May 2001 14:13:37 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Josh Paetzel To: Harkirat Singh , Subject: Re: UDP - Reliable throughput mesaurement tool Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 14:13:37 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01052614133701.54532@mark9.vladsempire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 26 May 2001 13:51, Harkirat Singh wrote: > Hello! > > I want to measure UDP thruput of lossy channel, is there any tool > which tests it? I looked at some of the tools but these do not take care > of loss, I mean no retransmisson, just measure raw thruput of UDP (TTCP > is one of these). > > I am looking for a measurement tool which should retransmit in case of > loss and keep a track of packets, I mean make UDP reliable amd blocking > calls. > > Thanks, > > Harkirat > > Uhhmmm, seeing as UDP is specifically designed as being "lossy" I don't think there is going to be anything that can help you out there. There is a really good protocol that you can use if you need "reliable" delivery of packets over IP. If I remember right, it is called TCP. Josh > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message