Subject: Re: [IMRG] Historical question

From: Vern Paxson <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:14:02 -0700

> Steve Bellovin from ATT-research wrote a paper in 92
> that was basically using the pathchar-technique for
> estimating the bandwidth (capacity) of a link from
> the RTT vs packet-size relation.
> 
> http://www.research.att.com/~smb/papers/netmeas.ps

It's indeed a nifty paper!

> He was interested to apply this technique in the
> security context.

Actually, no, he was motivated by the general measurement problem
(I confirmed this with him), though the paper includes a bit of discussion
of security implications.

		Vern
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