Thanks Adam, The info you provided looks very promising.
Shane -----Original Message----- From: Adam Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: How to measure packet loss/delay/jitter You can obtain stats like these using the IP SLA feature on Cisco devices. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer/docs/ios/12_4t/ip_sla/configuration/ guide/htvoipj.html http://www.cisco.com/en/US/technologies/tk648/tk362/tk920/technologies_w hite_paper09186a00802d5efe.html http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer/technologies/tk648/tk362/technologie s_white_paper0900aecd8022c2cc.html http://www.cisco.com/en/US/technologies/tk648/tk362/tk920/technologies_w hite_paper0900aecd8017f8c9.html Another option is to run something like iPerf on PCs on both ends of the link to obtain stats. http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/ (there is a Windows version available) Thanks, adam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 3:26 PM Subject: Re: How to measure packet loss/delay/jitter > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Thomas Mullins > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If anyone has any suggestions on how to measure packet >> loss/delay/jitter, I would greatly appreciate them. > > FYI, the term "packet delay variation" is the term the IETF > recommends be used, in favor of "jitter" (which I guess can be > ambiguous). > > I've had the free and Open Source SmokePing recommended to me for > this purpose. I haven't gotten around to trying it yet. Screen shots > look impressive as hell, though. :) > > http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ > > There's also good old fashioned "ping", which will give you min, > max, mean, and standard deviation for RTT time, and packet loss. > > -- Ben > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ > > > > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
