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

[Sebastian Moeller]

Hi Jesper.

On June 11, 2015 1:24:34 PM GMT+02:00, Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>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).


I sort of did, but it takes a relative long time to gather data (typically around 3 hours) plus 15 minutes for the analysis.
I am happy to share this with interested parties...


Best Regards
        Sebastian

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