perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

["Pennington, Mike" <>]

We've hosted Hartford.speedtest.net for at least a couple years now.  Very 
easy to setup and support, their latest versions are all auto updating and 
don't even need to be touched anymore.  They have metrics and reports you can 
run to see who is testing against you as well, along with the results, pretty 
cool stuff.

Mike Pennington
Network Engineer
Connecticut Education Network (CEN)
860-622-4566

www.cen.ct.gov

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 On Behalf Of Anderson, Eric L.
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 12:44 PM
To: Stephen Fromm
Cc: Andrew Lake; 

Subject: Re: [perfsonar-user] perfSONAR Support Timeline


> On Sep 28, 2016, at 11:25 AM, Stephen Fromm 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2016-09-28 at 06:28:40 -0700, Andrew Lake wrote:
> 
>> - We are dropping web100 support 6 months after 4.0 is released. This 
>> is something that has been contemplated for awhile now and the fact 
>> that there is no web100 patch for series 3 kernels, like that on 
>> CentOS 7, makes this a good time to make that transition.
>> 
>> - We will not be including NDT on the toolkit or other perfSONAR 
>> bundles anymore since it requires web100. We do not make this 
>> decision lightly, but our user surveys the past few years and 
>> discussions with many in the community seem to indicate that NDT is 
>> not a primary driver in using perfSONAR and the support burden 
>> coupled with the burden of requiring a non-standard kernel outweighs 
>> the benefit in the perfSOANR context. This is not to say it doesn't 
>> have utility in other contexts. NDT has a loyal following so it is 
>> possible it will live-on in other venues such as M-LAB, but not directly 
>> as part of perfSONAR.
> 
> We have found NDT to be an important part of perfSONAR and a great 
> resource in assisting end-users identify issues between their client 
> computers and test points across a network.  This often helps identify 
> issues where it isn't feasible to deploy a perfSONAR node deep inside 
> a customer network.
> 
> Do the perfSONAR developers or other NDT users have suggestions on 
> alternatives to use?


Same concern and similar question here as well. Although Flash based, one 
option might be OOKLA speedtest. Does anyone have experience hosting the 
OOKLA speedtest 
(http://www.ookla.com/support/a22030676/Speedtest-Installation)?

Thanks
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Eric Anderson
Systems Administration Group
Missouri Research and Education Network

(573) 882-0414