Hi Valdis,
On Jul 26, 2014, at 00:29 , [email protected] wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:20:53 -0700, David Lang said: > >> cost of bandwidth for this is just something to get someone to pay for >> (ideally >> someone with tons of bandwidth already who won't notice this sort of test, >> even >> if there are a few going on at once.) > > Ask U of Wisconsin how that worked out for them when Netgear shipped some > new boxes.... > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTP_server_misuse_and_abuse#NETGEAR_and_the_University_of_Wisconsin.E2.80.93Madison > > It's one thing to come up with a solution that works for the 300 (total wild > guess) people > on this list. But to be useful for field deployable, it really needs to be > able > to handle a "every Comcast customer in a major metro area", because we *do* > want this stuff to work well when this makes it into the CPE that Comcast > gives every new customer, right? :) Hence it would be really sweet if the link speed test could be perfumed against the CMTS/DSLAM as these should be powerful enough to handle load from the number of subscribed “homes”. All we need is a fairly cheap way to measure one-way delays to and from the home router… (I think I am just going to try how far supported and how useful ICMP timestamp requests are, I also wonder why these are considered a security risk and seem to be missing in ICMPv6) Best Regards sebastian > _______________________________________________ > Cerowrt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat
