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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] (Is this message being received by anyone?) How to interpr

From: Shawn Carroll <shawnthomascarroll@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 14:58:50 -0400
I received it! I think most people have moved to an online forum-I forget the details, but perhaps someone else can chime in with them for us? Thanks! :)

> On Mar 28, 2019, at 10:35 AM, L A Walsh <wireshark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> (Sorry for duplicates if there are any)  
> Usually I see a copy of my email come back to me when I send 
> an email to a list, but have seen nothing back from the list.
> I verified my list options, and it seems there might be one 
> that could cause suppression depending on definintions, so I 
> toggled it to see if that makes a difference.
> 
> Thank-you for your forbearance.
> 
> 
> I was looking to understand the Round Trip Time graph and why it
> 
> seems to jump up and down between near 0 and 270ms.  That doesn't make
> sense to me -- first I don't see how some of them would have an
> RTT time of near 0 -- I don't see how that would be possible, so
> I figure I don't understand how to read the graph.
> 
> Also, I don't see why the RTT would jump up and down  and why there
> are "gaps" in the graph like between 45-85 seconds, vs. almost a
> solid-like appearance between 380-410s.
> Here is the RTT and througput graphs I'm trying to decipher:
> 
> https://i.imgur.com/4ijLxTJ.jpg
> 
> It looks like I have a relatively low latency when the graph
> peaks at around 150ms, but then something causes a jump so that
> latency climbs to over 250ms.
> 
> It also seems to be the case where I'm getting low latency that
> my throughput peaks with average packet length falling from 1500
> down to <100bytes.
> 
> I don't see any clear errors. or why there is such a sudden drop
> 
> Should I be looking for some type of dropped packets or errors?
> 
> Could this be cause by my ISP cutting bandwidth in a step-wise
> manner as a means to control?  Or could this be some sort of
> buffer-bloat with some buffer filling up and something halting
> output to wait for some buffers to drain...??
> 
> Another possibility is the application on my end is running on a
> high speed internal net with a 9k jumbo frame size -- could the
> mismatch between that the external frame size of 1.5k be causing
> some type of hysteresis?
> 
> Any ideas on how, if it is possible I might even this out?
> 
> It sorta wreaks havok with the local application...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> 
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