[e2e] userlevel TCP diagnostics
mort
mort at ieee.org
Wed Sep 27 03:42:57 PDT 2006
hi,
upon reading RFC 675 recently, i came across the following text:
"""
5. NETWORK MEASUREMENT PLANS FOR TCP
5.1 USERLEVEL DIAGNOSTICS
We have in mind a program which will exercise a given TCP, causing it
to cycle through a number of states; opening, closing, and
transmitting on a variety of connections. This program will collect
statistics and will generally try to detect deviation from TCP
functional specifications. Clearly there will have to be a copy of
this program both at the local site being tested and some site which
has a certified TCP. So we will have to produce a specification for
this user level diagnostic program also.
There needs to be a master and a slave side to all this so the master
can tell the slave what's going wrong with the test.
"""
...a precursor to a self-managed Internet perhaps :)
anyway, I was wondering if anyone could tell me whether this
program/service was ever implemented and deployed, and whether it was
reported anywhere? (and if not, why not?)
thanks,
R.
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