Re: How many routed hops would be considered too many to leave an AS

On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 05:59:35PM -0400, Thomas Gainer wrote:

Kind of a newbie questions, but I would like to know what the consensus is.

Hmm, until it breaks the application? Latency is what matters. That is unless your TTL expires prematurely; in this case defined as before the applications endpoints can reach each other (which in turn could theoretically be a function of latency as well). -- Christian Kuhtz <ck@arch.bellsouth.net> -wk, <ck@gnu.org> -hm Sr. Architect, Engineering & Architecture, BellSouth.net, Atlanta, GA, U.S. "I speak for myself only.""