On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 19:46, Pierre Fortin wrote:
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> <flame>
>
> Folks,
>
> Let's look at the problem in terms of cars and roads...
>
> DSL/Cable: like driving up/down your own driveway... easy to determine
> how may cars you can put on it.
>
> DS-3: like trying to determine the traffic capacity of a freeway by
> sending more cars onto it without knowing the current traffic situation.
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First, you assume that I don't know the current user or bandwidth load
of the circuit, when in fact I know both and am working with my ISP to
troubleshoot a problem.
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> "Tools" like this are unscientific and in an indirect way a DDoS attack on
> the network.
And second, you assume that bing is in the same class as rape.c. From
the highly edifying man page:
DESCRIPTION
Bing determines bandwidth on a point-to-point link by
sending ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets and measuring their
roundtrip times for different packet sizes on each end of
the link.
The actual packet stream used to measure bandwidth on the DS-3 was 3.6
kbps.
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> </flame>
>
> Pierre
Thanks for playing!
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