[mosh-devel] measuring disconnectivity

[Dave Taht]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Keith Winstein <keithw at mit.edu> wrote:
> Short answer is "not right now." For the future, we have been thinking about
> the best way to give Mosh an opt-in voluntary scheme to collect some network
> info and contribute it anonymously for future research. Could be a great way
> to monitor the health of the Internet and the frequency of actual mobility.

Well, actually, I wanted to do it client side and monitor the health
of my connection,
mostly. No PI issues there.

> But we need to figure out a way to do it that doesn't freak people out (even
> if it's opt-in), and I don't really want to know who is talking to whom.
>
> For the present, you could probably come up with a patch for the mosh-server
> that has it write out the time difference between the last-sent state and
> the last acknowledged state to a file every time there's a new state.
>
> -Keith
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I usually have a mosh session nailed up going multiple hops through a
>> wireless network that
>> frequently goes down, so here I sit with a nice means of continually
>> measuring, without
>> ping, what's going on on my network.
>>
>> is there a way to pull out timestamped packet loss statistics from
>> mosh and/mosh daemon?
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dave Täht
>>
>> NSFW:
>> https://w2.eff.org/Censorship/Internet_censorship_bills/russell_0296_indecent.article
>>
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Dave Täht

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