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Recommendation of Tools

Subject: Recommendation of Tools
From: pekkas at netcore.fi (Pekka Savola)
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 08:52:40 +0200 (EET)
In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
References: <084962C061414240A0CDB4BE328A9B2D0BB10BAED8@GVW1100EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net> <[email protected]>

On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Andrew Mulholland wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Lee, Steven (NSG Malaysia) <
> kin-wei.lee at hp.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all, do you have any recommended tools that can measure latency/delay
>> hop by hop basis? Preferable the tools can measure the running (live)
>> traffic.
>>
>
> mtr ? - http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/

FWIW, Mtr measures latency/delay and loss based on ICMP messages heard 
back from the routers on path.  As a result, in almost all cases, the 
real hop-by-hop latency of actual end-to-end data packets is better 
than it can report.

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

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References:
- Recommendation of Tools
  - From: kin-wei.lee at hp.com (Lee, Steven (NSG Malaysia))
- Recommendation of Tools
  - From: andy-nanog at bash.sh (Andrew Mulholland)

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