On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Ian Schorr wrote: > According to their docs in the latest release of Sniffer Pro (4.75 > SP3), and as best as I've been able to extract from NAI themselves: > > To obtain "Application Response Time" for TCP-based protocols, they > simply measure TCP ACK RTT. For UDP-based protocols, they simply > measure the time from the sending of a datagram in one direction, to > the observation of a datagram in the oposite direction (which is, > presumably, the response). > > I've pointed out on numerous occasions that these statistics are > meaningless, at least from a ART/SRT standpoint. > > This, by the way, appears to have been true for at least the past three > years.
Oh well. Actually, we need to add similar stuff for HTTP as well ... Regards ----- Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com
