[Bloat] Progress with latency-under-load tool

[Jonathan Morton]

On 20 Mar, 2011, at 4:33 pm, Pedro Tumusok wrote:

>> Horrible, isn't it?  I deliberately left these machines with standard configurations in order to show that.
>> 
> Is there any point in running this on a CPE? Or would it be better to
> have it for host to host connections?

Some CPE is multifunctional, eg. fileserver, webcache...  for those types it is definitely worthwhile.

Otherwise, the CPE is just another component of the network between two hosts, but an important one because it often controls the bottleneck (in at least the upload direction).  You culd therefore productively modify the CPE's device drivers or network stack, and then retest it using ordinary hosts.

 - Jonathan