Measurement Tools

Traceroute-like Tools: traceroute, MTR, PingPlotter, lft, tracepath, traceproto

There is a large and growing number of path-measurement tools derived from the well-known traceroute tool. Those tools all attempt to find the route a packet will take from the source (typically where the tool is running) to a given destination, and to find out some hop-wise performance parameters along the way.

Bandwidth Measurement Tools: pchar, Iperf, bwctl, Netperf, RUDE/CRUDE, ttcp, NDT, DSL Reports

Use: Evaluate the Bandwidth between two points in the network.

Active Measurement Boxes

Use: information about Delay, Jitter and packets loss between two probes.

• DFN/GEANT2 HADES (formerly IPPM)
• RIPE TTM
• RENATER QoSMetrics

Passive Measurement Tools

These tools perform their measurement by looking at existing traffic. They can be further classified into

• SNMP Device Polling: MRTG, Cricket
• NetFlow-based: flow-tools etc.
• Packet Capture and Analysis Tools: tcpdump, Wireshark/Ethereal, jnettop

References

• CAIDA (Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis) taxonomy of performance measurement tools - http://www.caida.org/tools/taxonomy/performance.xml

-- FrancoisXavierAndreu & SimonMuyal - 06 Jun 2005 -- HankNussbacher - 01 Jun 2005 -- SimonLeinen - 15 Jul 2005 - 25 Jan 2007