[Rpm] Test procedures for TCP stacks ?

[Christoph Paasch]

Hello,

> On Jan 31, 2022, at 7:27 AM, Toerless Eckert via Rpm <rpm at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
> 
> Are thre any well defined (RFC or the like) test procedures for the "quality"
> of TCP stacks ? I am especially thinking about measuring how good the
> TCP stack behaves in the face of various path problems. Latency, loss,
> reorder,.

I don't think that there is anything like that. All depends on what would be defined as "quality".

> 
> Related:
> 
> How big a difference between goodput and throughput would one be able to
> see anyhow between worst... best TCP stacks ?

That is interesting. It would be a measure of the efficiency of the TCP stack.


Christoph

> 
> Thanks!
>    Toerless
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