perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Brian McNally <>]

Yea, I'm definitely coming from a .edu address. Trying without -b 
doesn't change the behavior. I suppose I could contact some folks at ESNet.

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Brian McNally

On 03/12/2015 09:53 AM, Brian Tierney wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Brian McNally 
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>     Thanks for the response. For some reason my sessions are denied,
>     which I think I mistook earlier for most sites not providing UDP
>     test endpoints at all. For example:
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>     bwctl -c llnl-pt1.es.net <http://llnl-pt1.es.net> -u -b200m -T iperf3
>     ...
>     bwctl: SessionRequest: Denied by llnl-pt1.es.net
>     <http://llnl-pt1.es.net>
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> are you coming from a uw.edu <http://uw.edu> address? That should work.
>
> Maybe try without the -b option and see what happens.
>
>     Even if the session was allowed, 200Mbps isn't much of a test for
>     what I'm testing. I was hoping for 1-5Gbps, but that might be asking
>     too much.
>
>
> Yeah, thats too risky, as Dale pointed out. There might be a tight link
> in the path that that would torpedo.
>
>     --
>     Brian McNally
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>     On 03/11/2015 05:04 PM, Brian Tierney wrote:
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>
>         Forgot to include list of servers.
>
>         See: http://stats.es.net/__ServicesDirectory/#search=es.__net
>         <http://stats.es.net/ServicesDirectory/#search=es.net>
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>         On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Brian Tierney 
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>              You can run UDP tests at speeds up to 200Mbps to the ESnet
>         test hosts.
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>              List of hosts are here:
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>              Sample command:
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>              bwctl -c llnl-pt1.es.net <http://llnl-pt1.es.net>
>         <http://llnl-pt1.es.net> -u -b200m -T iperf3
>
>              bwctl: Using tool: iperf3
>
>              bwctl: 41 seconds until test results available
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>
>              SENDER START
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>              Connecting to host 198.129.254.106, port 5639
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>              [ 12] local 198.129.249.37 port 49692 connected to
>         198.129.254.106
>              port 5639
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>              [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Total
>         Datagrams
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>              [ 12]   0.00-1.00   sec  22.3 MBytes   187 Mbits/sec  2850
>
>              [ 12]   1.00-2.00   sec  23.7 MBytes   199 Mbits/sec  3033
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>              [ 12]   2.00-3.00   sec  23.8 MBytes   200 Mbits/sec  3049
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>              [ 12]   3.00-4.00   sec  23.9 MBytes   200 Mbits/sec  3055
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>              [ 12]   4.00-5.00   sec  23.8 MBytes   200 Mbits/sec  3052
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>              [ 12]   5.00-6.00   sec  23.9 MBytes   200 Mbits/sec  3053
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>              [ 12]   6.00-7.00   sec  23.8 MBytes   200 Mbits/sec  3049
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>              [ 12]   7.00-8.00   sec  23.9 MBytes   200 Mbits/sec  3055
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>              [ 12]   8.00-9.00   sec  23.8 MBytes   200 Mbits/sec  3049
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>              [ 12]   9.00-10.00  sec  23.8 MBytes   200 Mbits/sec  3051
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>              iperf Done.
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>              SENDER END
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>              On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Brian McNally
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>                  I'm attempting to locate perfSONAR/bwctl endpoints in
>         the US
>                  that are open for public UDP tests. It seems like most
>         sites
>                  allow TCP tests but deny UDP tests. Why is this? Could
>         someone
>                  recommend some UDP endpoints I might be able to connect to?
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>                  Thanks,
>
>                  --
>                  Brian McNally
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>              --
>              Brian Tierney, http://www.es.net/tierney
>              Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), Berkeley National Lab
>         http://fasterdata.es.net
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>         --
>         Brian Tierney, http://www.es.net/tierney
>         Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), Berkeley National Lab
>         http://fasterdata.es.net
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> Brian Tierney, http://www.es.net/tierney
> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), Berkeley National Lab
> http://fasterdata.es.net