[ale] Measuering Latency

[James Sumners]

Interesting. I hadn't heard of mtr before. These are the results I'm
getting at 13:20 --
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|                                      WinMTR statistics
                    |
|                       Host              -   %  | Sent | Recv | Best
| Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
|                             192.168.1.1 -    0 |   39 |   39 |    0
|    1 |   16 |    0 |
|    66-23-230-1.clients.speedfactory.net -    0 |   38 |   38 |   46
|   55 |   63 |   63 |
|                duchess.speedfactory.net -    0 |   38 |   38 |   46
|   53 |   63 |   62 |
|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|
   WinMTR - 0.8. Copyleft @2000-2002 Vasile Laurentiu Stanimir  (
stanimir at cr.nivis.com )

I'll have to try again tonight and see how it fares.


On 11/12/07, Jason Fritcher <jkf at wolfnet.org> wrote:
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > Is there a better way to get these numbers?
> >
>
> Have you looked at mtr for testing latencies? If not, its an awesome
> tool, a combination of traceroute and ping,
> http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/. I really like it because just knowing you
> have high latencies is not nearly as useful as knowing what hop is
> causing the problem. In report mode, mtr can generate output similar to
> the following that you could parse and look for abnormally high
> latencies. These reports also make good clue sticks to use on support
> critters. :)
>
> $ mtr -r -c 10 www.google.com
> HOST: comstar                     Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
>   1. 169.254.1.1                   0.0%    10    0.2   0.2   0.2   0.4   0.1
>   2. 72.9.242.1                    0.0%    10    0.6   1.2   0.3   2.2   0.5
>   3. L3-ATL-1.gnax.net             0.0%    10    1.8   1.5   0.8   2.8   0.7
>   4. atl-core-a-gi3-6.gnax.net     0.0%    10    1.4   1.7   1.1   2.5   0.5
>   5. 209.51.130.209                0.0%    10    1.5   1.6   0.7   3.5   0.8
>   6. aix.pr1.atl.google.com        0.0%    10    1.8   6.0   1.2  43.2  13.1
>   7. 72.14.236.12                  0.0%    10    1.8   1.6   0.9   2.4   0.5
>   8. 72.14.238.137                 0.0%    10   15.0  17.6  14.7  39.0   7.5
>   9. 64.233.175.111                0.0%    10   15.4  15.5  14.6  17.5   0.8
>  10. 72.14.232.25                  0.0%    10   17.9  17.8  17.1  18.4   0.5
>  11. yo-in-f99.google.com          0.0%    10   14.8  15.3  14.5  17.2   0.8
>
> --
>  Jason K. Fritcher
>   jkf at wolfnet.org
>
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