* References updated

* IPPM added

SRC/DETAILS

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Some details about echoping
 
 echoping is a debugging tool. It is not a "end user" tool. For
 instance, HTTP testing takes host names, not URLs as parameters (if
-you want to test in a more HTTPish way, use wget). Also, when
+you want to test in a more HTTPish way, use wget or curl). Also, when
 connecting to a server which has both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses,
 echoping does not try every address in turn like most user-oriented
 programs do. If you want to test only the IPv4 address, use the
@@ -11,13 +11,13 @@ address, not the host name (or use the -4 option).
 
 echo service:
 
-echoping assumes the remote host accepts such connections. Experience
+echoping by default assumes the remote host accepts such
-show that most Internet routers do and many hosts also. However, some
+connections. Experience show that most Internet routers or hosts could
-Unices are not shipped with this service enabled and, anyway, the
+do it but do not by default. Most Unices are not shipped with this
-administrator is always free to close it (I think they
+service enabled and, anyway, the administrator is always free to close
-shouldn't). echoping has therefore less chance to succeed than ping or
+it (I think they shouldn't). echoping has therefore less chance to
-bing. (On a typical Unix box, "echo" service is configured in
+succeed than ping or bing. (On a typical Unix box, "echo" service is
-/etc/inetd.conf but see the CERT advisory
+configured in /etc/inetd.conf but see the CERT advisory
 <http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-96.01.UDP_service_denial.html>.)
 
 What does it measure?
@@ -49,12 +49,17 @@ To measure performances on the Internet you can also see:
 
 Unix:
 
-- bing, a bandwidth measurement tool <ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/networking>
+- bing, a bandwidth measurement tool
+  <http://www.freenix.fr/freenix/logiciels/bing.html>
+- patchchar or pchar <http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Software/pchar/>,
+  a bandwidth measurement tool
 - ping, probably available with your system
 - traceroute, idem (otherwise, see <ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/>)
 - ttcp, the best measurement tool but it needs some control over the 
   two machines <ftp://ftp.arl.mil/pub/ttcp> (nothing to do with
   the T/TCP protocol)
+- Netpipe, it needs some control over the 
+  two machines <ftp://ftp.scl.ameslab.gov/pub/netpipe/>
 - treno (evaluates available bandwidth for TCP) 
   <http://www.psc.edu/~pscnoc/treno_info.html>
 - spray is a tool which I dont't know very well. It is available on some 
@@ -71,11 +76,12 @@ I've also heard of but never tried:
 Macintosh:
 
 - TCP Watcher, a very nice "swiss-army knife" tool, to test ping, DNS, echo. 
-  It includes an echo server. Available on Info-Mac in "comm/tcp".
+  It includes an echo server. Available on Info-Mac in "comm/inet".
 
 MS-Windows:
 
-(I have little knowledge of that environment and I tested nothing.) 
+(I have little knowledge of that environment and I tested nothing. The
+references here are quite old and should be checked.)
 
 - WSNUTIL. Seems to be an echo client and server. 
   <http://www.ccs.org/winsock/xref-e.html#echo_clients>
@@ -92,14 +98,17 @@ Panel
 
 Web clients:
 
-- You can ping or traceroute on the Web. See 
+- You can ping or traceroute on the Web. See
-  <http://www.freenix.org/cgi-bin/traceroute.iphtml>,
+  <http://www.traceroute.org/>.
-  <http://www.tracert.com/> or
-  <http://www.fr.net/internet/trace.html>.
-
 
 Use all of them with care, the result is not obvious to interpret.
 
+If you are interested in Internet measurements, there is an Internet
+Engineering Task Force Working Group, IPPM (IP Performance Metrics)
+which produces many fine RFC that are really good to read. See
+<http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ippm-charter.html> for a full
+list. I appreciate RFC 2330 and 3148.
+
 And don't forget to read RFC 1470 ("Tools for Monitoring and Debugging
 TCP/IP Internets and Interconnected Devices"), specially its
 "Benchmark" section and the W. Richard Stevens' books (all of them),