Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932672AbWEXKoS (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 May 2006 06:44:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932674AbWEXKoS (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 May 2006 06:44:18 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.189]:58628 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932672AbWEXKoR (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 May 2006 06:44:17 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=RhkHlk6bfUaYVZ/kqhmIFtRkK6bWKI3PitV0R0ss+tE5VCxu4TM+YZqG8GChyfSb5b2TN/BnoZNJ70lxJyjWd6bRe7vO4Xf546aFahNT8rhLRE/V6RcRfL8iGO+sKbtyZhDU5L9s2stOBFwJh242lwz2/Vrlshal38AMiSrJ2W8= Message-ID: <3420082f0605240344s61156345h22ca952b76533ec6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 16:44:15 +0600 From: "Irfan Habib" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: High speed method to determine bandwidth MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 644 Lines: 16 Hi, I'm building an application which requires me to determine the bandwitth between two nodes. Now I'm using the formulat BW = (max segment size/rtt) * 1/sqrt(packet loss) But this requires me to determine the packet loss and the RTT, and to do that I use ping. Now ping really slows down the entire calculation. Is there a more faster way to determine the bandwidth between nodes?? Regards Irfan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/