[Web10g-user] NDT Web10G Patch

Dominic Hamon dominic at measurementlab.net
Thu Jan 17 10:26:19 EST 2013


I haven't looked at the patch yet, but I want to add whole-hearted support
for this work. M-Lab is currently working towards supporting Web10G as an
alternative to Web100 and this work helps us greatly.


On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Richard Sanger <rsangerarj at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As part of an internship at WAND, I've been working on a web10g version of
> ndt.
>
> The patch is attached.
> I've also got some Web10g patched linux kernels for Debian(squeeze or
> wheezy should work) here.
> https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B-PiO7DvhNkJUDNwcTZjVGtJNmc/edit
>
> NOTE: The kernel needs a slight modification to the Web10g kernel patch.
> Which is included in the Google drive folder above.
>
> I've incorporated Web10G into the code in such a way that both the
> web100srv and web10g can be built. Besides some bug fixes the web100srv is
> unchanged. The configuration process should detect web100 and web10g
> libraries and build accordingly. Web10G variable logging is not implemented
> - this shouldn't have any effects on the results.
>
> For the most part the client hasn't been changed, so an old client can
> connect without issues. The only things that could go wrong with an old
> client are TCP Timestamps/ECN may be incorrectly detected as on.
>
> This patch also includes a few fixes for both clients and servers,
> including those I logged as issues #69 #70 #71 #73.
>
> Along with web10g this adds code in ndt/src/kernel_* files which will
> check some of the kernel configuration for a Web10G server and print
> warnings about incorrect configuration.(If the server is run with -k option
> these will be corrected).
>
> Look at ndt/WEB10G README for more information.
>
> I would be great to get this incorporated into the ndt trunk (or branch).
> Although the Web10G code still needs more testing the web100 parts of the
> code are unchanged.
>
> Send me an email if you have any issues all feedback is welcome.
>
> Cheers,
> Richard
>
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