Re: tcptrace RTT summary description

From: Alexandre Jose Ferreira (alexandre.j.ferreira@terra.com.br)
Date: 04/18/03

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    From: "Alexandre Jose Ferreira" <alexandre.j.ferreira@terra.com.br>
    Subject: Re: tcptrace RTT summary description
    Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:17:39 -0300
    
    

    Hi !

    You could try tcptrace -hxargs.

    You 'll get something like this

    $ tcptrace -houtput

    OK, here's a sample output (using -l) and what each line means:

    1 connection traced:
                  #### how many distinct TCP connections did I see pieces of
    13 packets seen, 13 TCP packets traced
                  #### how many packets did I see, how many did I trace
    connection 1:
                  #### I'll give you a separate block for each connection,
                  #### here's the first one
            host a: 132.235.3.133:1084
            host b: 132.235.1.2:79
                  #### Each connection has two hosts. To shorten output
                  #### and file names, I just give them letters.
                  #### Connection 1 has hosts 'a' and 'b', connection 2
                  #### has hosts 'c' and 'd', etc.
            complete conn: yes
                  #### Did I see the starting FINs and closing SYNs? Was it
    reset?
            first packet: Wed Jul 20 16:40:30.688114
                  #### At what time did I see the first packet from this
    connection?
            last packet: Wed Jul 20 16:40:41.126372
                  #### At what time did I see the last packet from this
    connection?
            elapsed time: 0:00:10.438257
                  #### Elapsed time, first packet to last packet
            total packets: 13
                  #### total packets this connection

                  #### ... Now, there's two columns of output (TCP is
                  #### duplex) one for each direction of packets.
                  #### I'll just explain one column...
       a->b: b->a:
         total packets: 7 total packets: 6
                  #### packets sent in each direction
         ack pkts sent: 6 ack pkts sent: 6
                  #### how many of the packets contained a valid ACK
         unique bytes sent: 11 unique bytes sent: 1152
                  #### how many data bytes were sent (not counting
    retransmissions)
         actual data pkts: 2 actual data pkts: 1
                  #### how many packets did I see that contained any amount of
    data
         actual data bytes: 11 actual data bytes: 1152
                  #### how many data bytes did I see (including retransmissions)
         rexmt data pkts: 0 rexmt data pkts: 0
                  #### how many data packets were retransmissions
         rexmt data bytes: 0 rexmt data bytes: 0
                  #### how many bytes were retransmissions
         outoforder pkts: 0 outoforder pkts: 0
                  #### how many packets were out of order (or I didn't see the
    first transmit!)
         SYN/FIN pkts sent: 1/1 SYN/FIN pkts sent: 1/1
                  #### how many SYNs and FINs were sent in each direction
         mss requested: 1460 bytes mss requested: 1460
    bytes
                  #### What what the requested Maximum Segment Size
         max segm size: 9 bytes max segm size: 1152
    bytes
                  #### What was the largest segment that I saw
         min segm size: 2 bytes min segm size: 1152
    bytes
                  #### What was the smallest segment that I saw
         avg segm size: 5 bytes avg segm size: 1150
    bytes
                  #### What was the average segment that I saw
         max win adv: 4096 bytes max win adv: 4096
    bytes
                  #### What was the largest window advertisement that I sent
         min win adv: 4096 bytes min win adv: 4085
    bytes
                  #### What was the smallest window advertisement that I sent
         zero win adv: 0 times zero win adv: 0
    times
                  #### How many times did I sent a zero-sized window
    advertisement
         avg win adv: 4096 bytes avg win adv: 4092
    bytes
                  #### What was the average window advertisement that I sent
         initial window: 9 bytes initial window: 1152
    bytes
                  #### How many bytes in the first window (before the first ACK)
         initial window: 1 pkts initial window: 1
    pkts
                  #### How many packets in the first window (before the first
    ACK)
         throughput: 1 Bps throughput: 110 Bps
                  #### What was the data throughput (Bytes/second)
         ttl stream length: 11 bytes ttl stream length: 1152
    bytes
                  #### What was the total length of the stream (from FIN to SYN)
                  #### Note that this might be larger than unique data bytes
    because
                  #### I might not have captured every segment!!!
         missed data: 0 bytes missed data: 0
    bytes
                  #### How many bytes of data were in the stream that I didn't
    see?
         RTT samples: 2 RTT samples: 1
                  #### How many ACK's could I use to get an RTT sample
         RTT min: 45.9 ms RTT min: 19.4 ms
                  #### What was the smallest RTT that I saw
         RTT max: 199.0 ms RTT max: 19.4 ms
                  #### What was the largest RTT that I saw
         RTT avg: 122.5 ms RTT avg: 19.4 ms
                  #### What was the average RTT that I saw
         RTT stdev: 0.0 ms RTT stdev: 0.0 ms
                  #### What was the standard deviation of the RTT that I saw
         segs cum acked: 0 segs cum acked: 0
                  #### How many segments were cumulatively ACKed (the ACK that I
    saw
                  #### was for a later segment. Might be a lost ACK or a
    delayed ACK
         duplicate acks: 2 duplicate acks: 0
                  #### How many duplicate ACKs did I see
         max # retrans: 0 max # retrans: 0
                  #### What was the most number of times that a single segment
                  #### was retransmitted
         min retr time: 0.0 ms min retr time: 0.0 ms
                  #### What was the minimum time between retransmissions of a
                  #### single segment
         max retr time: 0.0 ms max retr time: 0.0 ms
                  #### What was the maximum time between retransmissions of a
                  #### single segment
         avg retr time: 0.0 ms avg retr time: 0.0 ms
                  #### What was the average time between retransmissions of a
                  #### single segment
         sdv retr time: 0.0 ms sdv retr time: 0.0 ms
                  #### What was the stdev between retransmissions of a
                  #### single segment

    Version: Ostermann's tcptrace -- version 6.3.2 -- Mon Oct 14, 2002
      Compiled by Alexandre Ferreira '' at 'Thu Nov 21 14:20:53 2002' on
    machine 'ICE0D185'

    Goog look !
    Alexandre Ferreira

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: <tcptrace@philgra.org>
    To: <tcptrace@tcptrace.org>
    Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 6:00 PM
    Subject: tcptrace RTT summary description

    > Hello,
    >
    > Is there somewhere that describes what the -lr output means (describing
    some of the fields)?
    >
    > Thanks,
    > :-Phil
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