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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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