Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming?
Gary E. Miller wrote:
And I sure hope that HOP count is not used, Singapore has a mixture of very fast and very slow links to foreign countries so hop count is a useless measure of "closeness".
Quite possibly, if used by itself. Dr. Jacobsen's method (http://www.caida.org/Pathchar) is a proven strategy that could provide some relief here, but may be impractical interactively. Then again, isn't any interactive measurement going to be impractical? Andrew Bender tns-inc.com
Hello Andrew , Have you heard from anyone (hopefully Mr. Van Jacobson) when they/he may release the sources to this tool ? All of the emails to the suggested (which I forget) comments/suggestions address go unanswered & afaict unseen . I am hoping someone may have heard something . Tia, JimL On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Andrew Bender wrote:
Gary E. Miller wrote:
And I sure hope that HOP count is not used, Singapore has a mixture of very fast and very slow links to foreign countries so hop count is a useless measure of "closeness".
Quite possibly, if used by itself. Dr. Jacobsen's method (http://www.caida.org/Pathchar) is a proven strategy that could provide some relief here, but may be impractical interactively. Then again, isn't any interactive measurement going to be impractical?
Andrew Bender tns-inc.com
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if you're into available src code might want to also look at http://www.caida.org/Tools/taxsum.html#clink (allan downey) http://www.caida.org/Tools/taxsum.html#pchar (bruce mah) and other stuff on http://www.caida.org/Tools/taxonomy.html under "Internet Throughput" k Hello Andrew , Have you heard from anyone (hopefully Mr. Van Jacobson) when they/he may release the sources to this tool ? All of the emails to the suggested (which I forget) comments/suggestions address go unanswered & afaict unseen . I am hoping someone may have heard something . Tia, JimL On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Andrew Bender wrote:
Gary E. Miller wrote:
And I sure hope that HOP count is not used, Singapore has a mixture of very fast and very slow links to foreign countries so hop count is a useless measure of "closeness".
Quite possibly, if used by itself. Dr. Jacobsen's method (http://www.caida.org/Pathchar) is a proven strategy that could provide some relief here, but may be impractical interactively. Then again, isn't any interactive measurement going to be impractical?
Andrew Bender tns-inc.com
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, k claffy wrote: | Hello Andrew , Have you heard from anyone (hopefully Mr. | Van Jacobson) when they/he may release the sources to this | tool ? All of the emails to the suggested (which I forget) | comments/suggestions address go unanswered & afaict unseen . | I am hoping someone may have heard something . Tia, JimL | Not likely. Someone already wrote a replacement, probably because of this.. It supports IPv6 also. It is at: http://www.ca.sandia.gov/~bmah/Software/pchar/
Hello Mr. Claffy & Mr. Chris Cappuccio , Thank you for the Referances . They have been enormuiously helpful . http://www.caida.org/Tools/taxsum.html Many Interesting tools at that Url: , Tnx again, JimL On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, k claffy wrote:
if you're into available src code might want to also look at http://www.caida.org/Tools/taxsum.html#clink (allan downey) http://www.caida.org/Tools/taxsum.html#pchar (bruce mah) and other stuff on http://www.caida.org/Tools/taxonomy.html under "Internet Throughput"
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
Not likely. Someone already wrote a replacement, probably because of this.. It supports IPv6 also. It is at: http://www.ca.sandia.gov/~bmah/Software/pchar/ +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | 25416 22nd So | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | DesMoines WA 98198 | only on AXP | +----------------------------------------------------------------+
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