[clug] how to use traceroute (now: iinet performance)

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

On 06/25/14 10:28, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 25/06/14 09:31, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
>> I used it before to see what is going on with routing. However, there is
>> something going
>> on with iinet recently, and a download test from ftp.iinet.net.au ran at
>> around 50k/s for
>> a line sync of 6-7Mb/s.
>>
>> I did a 'traceroute ftp.iinet.net.au' and it went all the way to 30
>> hops. I added '-m 255'
>> and it still went all the way. Looks like some kind of loop between
>> 203.0.178.32 (ftp.iinet...)
>> and 203.215.4.197 (no DNS). It is still doing this now.
>>
>> I find this unusual but maybe I do not understand how it works and why
>> this is acceptable.
>>
>> Can anyone explain why this is so and is this normal?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> --
>> Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)
>
>
> For your purposes you'll probably find tcptraceroute more useful
> (instead of ICMP tracerouting).
> e.g. tcptraceroute -n 255 ftp.iinet.net.au
> will test the route used for tcp packets, maximum of 255 hops, using the
> device and gateway from your routing table. You can specify the gateway
> with -g and the interface with -1. By default it uses the IPV from your
> routing table, IPV4 can be forced with -4, IPV6 with -6.
>
> For the purpose of getting a realistic measure of network performance
> may I suggest you use the tests from M-Labs (Open Source code):-
> http://www.measurementlab.net/tests
>
> The most useful in your case is Network Diagnostic Test:-
> http://www.measurementlab.net/tools/ndt
> NOTE: it requires java to use the online version. The downloadable CLI
> version is:-
> http://code.google.com/p/ndt/source/
>
> To test the last mile of your broadband use Network Path and Application
> Diagnostics:-
> http://www.measurementlab.net/tools/npad
>
> To test from within a LAN use the WRT-based router tool:-
> http://www.measurementlab.net/tools/bismark
>
> To test for application traffic shaping:-
> http://www.measurementlab.net/tools/glasnost
>
> To test for network transparency (ISP shaping/throttling):-
> http://www.measurementlab.net/tools/shaperprobe
>
> To perform reverse tcptracerouting from selected endpoints:-
> http://www.measurementlab.net/tools/reverse_traceroute
>
> To test your DNS performance try the DNS Benchmark tool - workbench.
>>From memory you use a SUSe distro - it's probably in your repository,
> it's in Debian's:-
> https://code.google.com/p/namebench/
>
>
> Kind regards

Thanks Scott,

tcptraceroute showed that all is well.

My issue was that a download from iinet (my ISP) site was running at less than 10% of
the sync speed (which itself is low around 6Mb/s).

After midnight the speed picked up to full sync, but this morning it is again slowly going down.

Fetching http://ftp.iinet.net.au/test100MB.dat
	over 1h yesterday evening
	11m at 8am today
	20m now (10:30)
Should take 2-3 minutes at my (slow) sync speed, which it did at around 00:30 this morning.

Any other iinet users here?

cheers

--
Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)