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Some Testing Tools for TCP Implementors
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Network Working Group S. Parker
Request for Comments: 2398 C. Schmechel
FYI: 33 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Category: Informational August 1998
Some Testing Tools for TCP Implementors
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998). All Rights Reserved.
1. Introduction
Available tools for testing TCP implementations are catalogued by
this memo. Hopefully disseminating this information will encourage
those responsible for building and maintaining TCP to make the best
use of available tests. The type of testing the tool provides, the
type of tests it is capable of doing, and its availability is
enumerated. This document lists only tools which can evaluate one or
more TCP implementations, or which can privde some specific results
which describe or evaluate the TCP being tested. A number of these
tools produce time-sequence plots, see
Tim Shepard's thesis [She91] for a general discussion of these plots.
Each tools is defined as follows:
Name
The name associated with the testing tool.
Category
One or more categories of tests which the tools are capable of
providing. Categories used are: functional correctness, performance,
stress. Functional correctness tests how stringent a TCP
implementation is to the RFC specifications. Performance tests how
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