[Bloat] ADSL, ATM drivers, bloat, education & confusion

[Jesper Dangaard Brouer]

On Sat, 6 Jun 2015 16:30:51 +0200 Sebastian Moeller <moeller0 at gmx.de> wrote:

> On Jun 6, 2015, at 15:53 , Jonathan Morton <chromatix99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > You will need to set the overhead calculation correctly, probably
> > using "pppoa-vcmux" or similar, depending on precisely what
> > encapsulation your ISP uses. If you're not confident about that,
> > specify "conservative" to begin with.
> 
> 	I can be of help to measure the overhead empirically, if you
> are willing to dedicate a few hours on an otherwise quiescent link to
> gather some ICMP data, just let me know.

It would be really cool if someone developed a (simple) tool that could
probe (a quiescent) ADSL/ATM link, and report the encapsulation
overhead (AFAIKR there are 12 different encap combi-types on ADSL).

-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Sr. Network Kernel Developer at Red Hat
  Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer