DG> Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 21:57:55 -0400 DG> From: Daniel Golding DG> Its funny, you always see people asking about peering link DG> sizes or locations on RFP's, but they never ask about peering DG> utilization or packet loss. The former is both NDA and DG> meaningless - the latter is terribly important. It's ANES -- Armchair Network Engineer Syndrome. The same people fuss arbitrarily about traceroute hop count. Eddy -- EverQuick Internet - http://www.everquick.net/ A division of Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - http://www.brotsman.com/ Bandwidth, consulting, e-commerce, hosting, and network building Phone: +1 785 865 5885 Lawrence and [inter]national Phone: +1 316 794 8922 Wichita _________________________________________________________________ DO NOT send mail to the following addresses: davidc@brics.com -*- jfconmaapaq@intc.net -*- sam@everquick.net Sending mail to spambait addresses is a great way to get blocked.