Keynote/Boardwatch Results

Wed Jul 9 21:28:17 UTC 1997

If you really want to test raw performance, why not just enable the chargen
service on a router in the core and let him suck that down and measure
throughput.  No more effective DOS attach than 4 simultaneous chargen
sessions on a T1.  I suspect a 7513 should be able to spit a few characters
per second :)

Eric

At 11:24 AM 7/9/97 -0700, John Leong wrote:
>n Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Jack Rickard wrote:
>> I discussed the universal test page
>> > suggestion with Gene Shklar this afternoon and we will make it so.
>
>Universal test page is certainly a [good] step - but it is a step (one
>among many) towards [comparative] testing the performance between the
>test machine and a *SPECIFIC* web server .... but not the peformance of
>the backbone (even though it clearly is a major component of the
>result).  There are simply too many uncontrolled variables still
>outstanding.
>
>By the way, we have given considerable thought on the attributes of such
>standardised test page.  ... starting with what is the test about.  It
>would be a good idea if a sub group of interested parties can get off
>line and work on this under some frame work (IETF, NANOG, CAIDA, ... or
>just an ad hoc BOF group) and then report the finding back to the
>mailing list.  
>
>So, if anyone is interested to work on a standardized web page, send me
>mail and I will try to get a seperate discussion list going, do some
>serious work ... and reduces the S/N ratio of this list.
>
>Regards,
>John Leong
>
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