Tools to measure TCP connection speed

Mon Mar 10 13:58:30 UTC 2008

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Joe Shen <joe_hznm at yahoo.com.sg> wrote:
>
>  hi,
>
>   is there any tool could measue e2e TCP connection
>  speed?
>
>
>   e.g. we want to measue the delay between the TCP SYN
>  and receiving SYN ACK packet.

So, all you want to know is basic RTT? Do you want to know about the
network? or the hosts? or the whole 'system' ?

One simple thing might be to just use WireShark which can calculate
the various timings on an individual tcp-session basis. Another poster
suggests tcpdump, also a fine solution...

-Chris