[Dev] Performance Profiler

[M. Mueller/bhu5nji]

On Tuesday 08 January 2002 12:32 pm, you wrote:
> > b.
>
> ping will give round trip times. Are you sending the packets over a PPP
> connection via modem?  Typical ping's on a modem connection are usually
> several hundred milliseconds.

The V.35 is SS7 on DDS 56kb/s - definitely not pingable.

>
> I've used snoop on Sun boxen and seem to remember getting timestamps from
> it. tcpdump may be able to retrieve same.

I'll check snoop.  Ethereal (which I am using) is a glorified tcpdump (I 
think).

I'm thinking more along the lines of profiling what's going on inside the box.

Thanks for the hints
Mike