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.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swm...@swm.pp.se
