things to test

Chris Lonvick clonvick at cisco.com
Mon Mar 29 13:19:03 UTC 2010


Hi,

I'll toss in that I2 and GEANT have been developing the PerfSONAR toolset.
   http://www.perfsonar.net/

Regards,
Chris

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

>
> I've been pondering what aspects of a residential broadband connection that 
> would be worthwhile in testing, which would also be some kind of incentive 
> for ISPs to start doing "better".
>
> Some things that comes to mind:
>
> speed
> latency to some points geographically near the user
> MTU of the connection
> If PMTUD works or not
> queueing (FIFO or something "better")
> antispoofing (BCP38) compliance
> filtering (IPv6 transition protocols for instance, lots more possible)
> buffer depth ingress/egress
> ECN
> ISP provided DNS resolver properties (DNSSEC, EDNS etc)
>
> I'm sure there are lots more, and this could probably not be done using a web 
> browser driven application, but instead would have to be an application, thus 
> harder to get people to use generally.
>
> Any work being done in this area already that someone can point to? I'd also 
> like to use some of this tech to do "web server tests", especially when it 
> comes to PMTUD working, especially when for a IPv6 world it would be nice to 
> have an easily available testing suite for these basic mechanisms.
>
> -- 
> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se
>
>




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