Recommendation of Tools

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On Dec 3, 2008 1:52am, Pekka Savola <pekkas at netcore.fi> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Andrew Mulholland wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Lee, Steven (NSG Malaysia)
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> Hi all, do you have any recommended tools that can measure latency/delay
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> hop by hop basis? Preferable the tools can measure the running (live)
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> mtr ? - http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/
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> 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.
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tcptraceroute is handy for looking at what's going on with tcp
http://michael.toren.net/code/tcptraceroute/


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