I think first you need to know what your looking for in order to find it. There is a large difference between reachability from A to B, overall network performance between point A and B, backbone performance between A and B, and host performance on B. You can only attempt to find an answer if you know the question. I havent looked closely at the Keynote performance data.. but it seems it is looking at a 'general' performance check from point A/B/C/D/E etc, TO point Z. That is fine, but as with any stats, they can be easily munged to imply what is wanted, and not what is. Personally, i dont think checking the network path to www.'NSP'.net is the correct way to do it. To me, tracing the path from multiple locations TO www.'NSPs-Customer'.com is better.. altho that doesnt take into account 'peak' times, anomolies, freakish events, position of the moon.. etc.. However, i do find stats kind of entertaining to interpret, i dont think there is a way to set in stone that by doing X you can find a 'perfect' value that represents the statistics from A to B. Just my 2 cents.. -mike On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Philip J. Nesser II wrote:
We have all seen the results of the survey now and there is a lot of opinion that there are many flaws in the logic. So the question is what is a legitimate test? I remember At the Ann Arbor NANOG there was a report on a project to test reachability, what is the current status of that project? Is there any strong consensus to perform a similar test that is engineered without the flaws in this test?
---> Phil