[ntp:questions] Detecting bufferbloat via ntp?

Dave Täht d at taht.net
Wed Feb 9 21:34:30 UTC 2011


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<Null at BlackList.Anitech-Systems.invalid> writes:

> Dave Täht wrote:
>> Rick Jones <rick.jones2 at hp.com> writes:
>> 24 hours worth of rawstats data (if that contains enough
>>  information, judging from the discussion on the list,
>>  it does) from a given ntp pool or pools would be revealing.
>>
>> Would there be anyone here interested in collecting that
>>  data and poking into this issue further?
>
> Why not do that with your own NTP clients?

I plan on it.

https://github.com/dtaht/Cosmic-Background-Bufferbloat-Detector

However whatever data set I can collect now would be dwarfed by one a
larger ntp pool could provide as a starting point, exposing problems
with the concept, show differences between versions of ntp, and hosts,
etc.


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Dave Taht
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