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> On 19 Apr, 2015, at 20:45, Toke H=C3=B8iland-J=C3=B8rgensen =
<toke@toke.dk> wrote:
>=20
> Why not? They can be a quite useful measure of how competing traffic
> performs when bulk flows congest the link. Which for many applications
> is more important then the latency experienced by the bulk flow
> itself.

One clear objection is that ICMP is often prioritised when UDP is not.  =
So measuring with UDP gives a better indication in those cases.  =
Measuring with a separate TCP flow, such as HTTPing, is better still by =
some measures, but most truly latency-sensitive traffic does use UDP.

 - Jonathan Morton