How to calculate packet loss from 'raw' mode?
Bug #958406 reported by
Ask Bjørn Hansen
This bug affects 2 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Mtr |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Bug Description
I'm adding a traceroute tool to the NTP Pool system ( http://
Currently to calculate packet loss I compare the number of received packets with the highest number of packets returned by a later hop. Is that correct or is there a better way without updating the raw mode to also know about sent packets?
Revision history for this message
| rew (r-e-wolff) wrote | #1 |
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| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
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You're right. The raw mode may not provide enough information to present all the info that is now shown by the output modules. For this case, the raw mode needs to be expanded.
Parsers for raw mode should know that the format may still change: Additional output lines may provide more info later on, and should be ignored by users based on an earlier version.
So: Feel free to send in a patch that adds this info to the raw mode.