[Bloat] Re: links to work that supersedes pping?

[Simon Sundberg <Simon.Sundberg@kau.se>]

On Mon, 2026-08-17 at 14:49 -0700, Kathleen Nichols wrote:
>
> I've been tilting at other windmills the past several years so I don't
> maintain pping (or other passive measurement stuff on Pollere's github
> account) but I know that folks on this list either have done or would
> know of much nicer follow-ons. I thought maybe I should put a note in
> the Readme directing anyone who stumbles across Pollere's pping that
> they may wish to look elsewhere. Anyone have any good links?
>
> thanks in advance,
> Kathie

Thanks for pping, it's been a great inspiration!

In addition to my own eBPF-based pping (epping, already covered by Frank
and Toke), there are some other alternatives that may also be relevant
(although both Spindump and Dart are abandoned research projects).

 * Spindump: User space (libpcap) continues latency monitoring with
   support for multiple protocols (TCP, QUIC, COAP, DNS, ICMP, and
   SCTP). Code at: https://github.com/EricssonResearch/spindump
 * Dart: P4 solution for Intel Tofino switches that passively monitors
   TCP RTT. Paper at https://doi.org/10.1145/3544216.3544222, code
   at https://github.com/SatadalSengupta/sigcomm22-paper67-artifacts
 * bcc-tools/tcprtt: A small utility that's part of the BCC-tools
   (https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/tree/master/tools) repository that
   reports the kernel's own sRTT estimate for each received TCP packet
   (so only works for TCP connections to/from the monitored host).

With best regards, Simon Sundberg.


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