On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 22:26 -0700, Piet Delaney wrote: > I'm upgrading our 2.6.12 kernel to 2.6.13, which includes significant > congestion avoidance code additions and changes. I was wondering if > there are any tools folks can recommend for testing the kernel to make > sure the congestion avoidance code is operating correctly. For > example the displaying of the congestion window as a function of time > while undergoing convergence. For causing congestion I could modify > a kernel to discard packets once in a while on a lab gateway and hit > it with iperf. HP's netperf looks interesting. > > Any suggestions? > > > -piet > Hi, Try having a look at the output of 'ss -i' (you may need to update to the latest iproute2 tools). You could either try and parse the text output of that or use the same inet_diag interface that ss uses to poll for the data it at regular intervals. -- Thomas Young http://cubinlab.ee.unimelb.edu.au/~tyo/ Research Assistant CUBIN Research Centre - University of Melbourne - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
