We can then measure the packet wire times from these machines using these cards. These measurements can be used to evaluate how accurate hardware-based measurement is. We can run tcpdump on the two machines at the same time and compare the tcpdump measurements with the measurements of the cards to see how close they are. We can compare the short term high density ping traffic patterns with those of other traffic types, for example, TCP and UDP traffic, and see if ping traffic patterns are representative of different traffic types. The Internet keeps growing.
New technologies appear and are applied to the Internet quickly.
We can expect that there will be more research in areas related to the measurement and analysis of the performance of the Internet.