From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from bifrost.lang.hm (lang.hm [66.167.227.134]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 79D493B2A0 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2016 01:02:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from dlang-laptop ([10.2.0.122]) by bifrost.lang.hm (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id uAG62Srq006562; Tue, 15 Nov 2016 22:02:28 -0800 Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 22:02:28 -0800 (PST) From: David Lang X-X-Sender: root@dlang-laptop To: jb cc: Dave Taht , bloat In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.20.17 (DEB 179 2016-10-28) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [Bloat] bufferbloat at high edge rates X-BeenThere: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: General list for discussing Bufferbloat List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 06:02:33 -0000 I was running it as root via sudo David Lang On Wed, 16 Nov 2016, jb wrote: > It has to run as root / Admin in order to do ICMP in order to test buffer > bloat. > > If you run it under a non privileged user account it cannot get permission > for ICMP, so although it locates the nearest servers using http ping, it > isn't doing any buffer bloat testing. > > I'm not sure that is the issue but that's the first thing that comes to > mind.. > > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 11:34 AM, David Lang wrote: > >> On Tue, 15 Nov 2016, jb wrote: >> >> The command line tool is available to anyone now (Windows, OSX and linux), >>> it does buffer bloat probing, using ICMP if run as root, and is immune to >>> any browser issues. It can be downloaded here from the sticky: >>> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/speedtestbinary >>> >> >> This does not seem to be reporting any bloat info (I've run it a couple >> times) >> >> http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/6156013 >> >> David Lang >> _______________________________________________ >> Bloat mailing list >> Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net >> https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat >> >> >