Ronja Twibright Labs

Measuring packetloss with ping on 2x Metropolis

Measuring packetloss of 2x Metropolis

INFO

Requirements

  • 2 PC's to which Ronja can be connected
  • Full duplex AUI network cards or Half Duplex Reduction(s)
  • Access to one of the PC's or 3rd PC connected to one side of the link by full-duplex wired or fiber optic network.
Drawing
Postscript / PDF / EPS / BIG png / SVG (Inkscape)

Connecting just electronics

If you are testing just bare electronics on the floor, connect the components according to the picture.
Gallery[9e]

IP setup

Set up IP networking. If you are using half duplex reduction to emulate full duplex card, read how to emulate full duplex card on IP level.

Running ping

  • You can select payload length in ping. The flag for this selection varies depending on ping vendor. Select suitable one to get packetloss between 0% and 100%. 56 bytes are default. Use max. 1472.
  • If you have neither scientific calculator, nor access to www nor local running copy of Ronja web, then select only 14, 56, or 1472 bytes of ping payload
  • If the ping allows you to specify -c to send packet as soon as the previous one arrives, use this flag.
  • If you are using the -c flag, then run two instances of the ping at the same time (in different xterm windows or consoles).
  • Do not use the -f (flood ping) option. This would render the measured BER invalid.
  • Leave the ping to run long enough to have multiple dropped packets. The longer the better precision.
  • Press ctrl-c and read out the packetloss (in %)
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