Jonathan Morton <[email protected]> writes: >> Why not? They can be a quite useful measure of how competing traffic >> performs when bulk flows congest the link. Which for many >> applications is more important then the latency experienced by the >> bulk flow itself. > > One clear objection is that ICMP is often prioritised when UDP is not. > So measuring with UDP gives a better indication in those cases. > Measuring with a separate TCP flow, such as HTTPing, is better still > by some measures, but most truly latency-sensitive traffic does use > UDP.
Sure, well I tend to do both. Can't recall ever actually seeing any performance difference between the UDP and ICMP latency measurements, though... -Toke _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat
