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Network engineers can use it to monitor network performance.
by nicky0 9y ago
Network engineers can use it to monitor network performance.
- IshKebab 9y agoHow though, because surely it includes the time outside the observers network? And if they only want to monitor performance inside their network nothing so them from using an out of band system, or even adding their own timing footers to packets.
- nicky0 9y agoRead this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16696159 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16696159
- erpellan 9y agoWhich they could presumably also do by injecting their own packets, not snooping on everyone else's?
- nicky0 9y agoI don't know, how would you inject packets into an encrypted end to end connection? Passive observation of traffic is a useful network performance monitoring technique.