[afnog] Bandwidth measurement

[Phil Regnauld]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 01:24:36PM -1000, Scott Weeks wrote:
> 
> : "Bing determines the real (raw, as opposed to available or average)
> : throughput on a link by measuring ICMP echo requests roundtrip times for
> : different packet sizes for each end of the link."
> 
> 
> That seems wierd since cisco (and most likely othere also) routers give
> ICMP a medium priority.  If one of the routers is busy, and waits to
> service the ICMP request, wouldn't that give a false measurement?

	That's why it doesn send only one packet :)

	Try it out...