Packet Reordering Metrics to Enable Performance Comparison in IP-Networks

Table 3

Parameters to be configured to perform the reorder tests.

Parameter	Description	Selected value
F	Ordered packet stream	ICMP echo request. The 16-bit sequential number header field was used to set the values. The ICMP echo reply was disabled in the receiver.
N	Number of packets	65535 ICMP packets for a ≈ 8 s test with the selected M and R.
M	Size of each packet	1518B for the complete packet. This value is the path MTU.
R	Packets-per-second rate	Since we are simulating 100 Mbps links, the sending rate was 8235 packets-per-second with 1518 bytes each one. This rate is well sustained on both sending and receiving hosts.