Ideally, always on monitoring and export at the PE. An incremental first
step in an adhoc off box tester, maybe deployed with the perfsonar suite.

Meaningfully visualizing the output seems challenging. Do you have any
insights on that part?

On Sat, Feb 27, 2021, 11:00 AM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> wrote:

> Jason Iannone <jason.iannone@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Beyond getting acquainted with a new dataset? I'm a transit network that
> > supports, among other traffic types, science flows. I think new
> monitoring
> > methods can help identify targets for intervention.
>
> Right, I meant more in terms of deployment: are you looking to run this
> as an always-on monitor on a middlebox, or are you just running ad-hoc
> measurements on a client device?
>
> I ask because we have a PhD student working on a re-implementation of
> pping in BPF, the goal of which is precisely to be able to run as an
> always-on monitor:
> https://github.com/xdp-project/bpf-examples/tree/master/pping
>
> So any insights into what you're thinking of doing with the tool would
> potentially be helpful - adding in Simon, who's writing the code.
>
> -Toke
>