#1469074 documentation and credits

MAINT_6_0
Stephane Bortzmeyer 17 years ago
parent d6dc37c4f9
commit 22dacf69e3

@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ adaptation to the new API, which allows IPv6.
Luca Deri <deri@ntop.org> for the patch separating kernel (TCP) and
application latency.
Andy Juniper <ajuniper@freeuk.com> for the patch which excludes
outliers from averages and from bug fixes on statistical calculations.
SourceForge for the very good environment to work with. SourceForge
changed the life of many free software programmers!

@ -111,6 +111,11 @@ Use only IPv4 (even if the target machine has an IPv6 address)
Use only IPv6 (even if the target machine has an IPv4 address)
.IP -f\ character
Fill the packet with this character (default is random filling)
.IP -D
Tries to display actual data transfer duration only, not total time
.IP -N\ n
Displays an average which excludes values ("outliers") which are
further than +/- N*standard deviation
.IP -p\ n
Send packets with the socket priority to the integer
.IR n .

@ -118,3 +118,11 @@ good to read. I appreciate RFC 2330 and 3148.
TCP/IP Internets and Interconnected Devices"), specially its "Benchmark"
section and the Richard Stevens' books (all of them), published by
Addison-Wesley.
<P>Last, but not least, since statistics is typically a very neglected
area in computer networks, <A
HREF="http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stbasic.html">Basic
Statistics</A> is a fery useful resource. For the reasons why echoping
displays median as well as average, see <A
HREF="http://shlang.com/writing/mean-delay-considered-harmful.html">Mean
Delay Considered Harmful</A>.

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