[AusNOG] Anyone know a good client side performance tool?

[Matthew Moyle-Croft]

Narelle wrote:
> I'll clarify some more...
>
> I want to drop some cheap probes around the network that look a lot
> like what customers actually use...
>
> ie measure what they experience, log it, then compile...
>   
I'm not sure what your customers do, but there are many linux client 
side things which you can instrument fairly easily - eg. wget/various 
pop mail downloaders etc.  Then you can time them/graph them etc and 
look for patterns.  From a purely network point of view smokeping is 
something some people like.  
> and I want to standardise on this (until I do something better) and
> use it across the range of access types our customers use
>
> you can't actually use gamers ;-P as there isn't the numbers of them
> in statistically good samples across all access types
>   

We've got peaks of over 2400 of them on game server clusters around 
Australia so they make good canaries.
 
MMC

> On 7/7/08, Narelle <narellec at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Anyone know a good open source PC based, client side network
>> performance monitoring tool?
>>
>> Logging, packet size variations, jitter latency, dns...
>>     
>
>
> ta again
>
>
>   

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