On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 04:55:46PM -0400, Scott Huddle wrote:
This is all WAG, tho. I'll argue that you can never measure this accurately from the network (how much traffic did you *not* count?, how much traffic was delivered on campus? is the site multihomed?), you have to measure it from the edge.
To really test this you need sampling from the users, ala the Nielson method and knowledge of geography for IP addresses. Market opportunity anyone?
The problem there, as I at least alluded to in my previous posting is that, unless you already _have_ the local exchange, there's no was at the edge router level to log the "local" traffic vs the "remote" traffic -- you could only do it in a local exchange environment by virtue of the fact that theexchange existed in the first palce, to give the locals a place to exchange routing info. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com