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Conclusion

  In this paper, we have described techniques for measuring packet loss using TCP. Using these methods the sting tool can separately derive measures for packet loss along the forward and reverse paths to a host, and can be used to probe any TCP-based server. In the future we plan to develop TCP-based techniques for estimating bandwidth [LB99], and round-trip time, and for deriving queue length distributions.



Stefan Savage
8/31/1999