Re: [ippm] Questions on draft-morton-ippm-capacity-metric-protocol-01

[can desem <[e-mail]>]

Hi Al, IPPM group,

I believe this will potentially be a really useful tool for measuring
speeds, especially if we can incorporate it in network terminating devices
such as customer gateways etc.

With regards the various options for the modes of operation, I think
encrypting the payload will add additional cpu load without adding much
benefit even though it may be valuable to defeat compression on links.
Instead, having an option to randomize the payload may be less process
intensive and achieve the same goal.

Another suggestion that would be extremely useful, if this measurement tool
were to be employed in a gateway like device, would be to take into
consideration the existing traffic that may be present while running such a
test. For example, monitoring the total traffic (which could be as simple
as counting the bytes on a WAN interface on a gateway) as the test is run
and including this as part of the measurement process would result in more
accurate measurements of the line speed. This could be added as an option
in the protocol which can be used when required in the described scenario.

Regards,
Can Desem