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Re: Network for Sale
From: Paul Vixie <vixie () mfnx net>
Date: 20 Feb 2001 07:22:54 -0800
nanog () Overkill EnterZone Net (John Fraizer) writes:
I suspect that your new technology simply adds another variable to the best-path-selection process based on your ping/traceroute script RTT's to a specific network based on what you have divolged thusfar.
Oh god, I hope not. RTT has never been an accurate predictor of end-to-end performance. (Just ask anyone who bought into ping-based global server load balancing.) ASPATH length is almost as bad (as a predictor) as RTT. Serve to learn, man.
Current thread:
- Re: Network for Sale, (continued)
- Re: Network for Sale Neil J. McRae (Feb 24)
- RE: Network for Sale Daniel Golding (Feb 24)
- Re: Delicious Network for Sale Alex Bligh (Feb 24)
- Re: Delicious Network for Sale Jay (Feb 24)
- Re: Delicious Network for Sale Mike Lewinski (Feb 24)
- Re: Delicious Network for Sale Steven J. Sobol (Feb 24)
- Re: Network for Sale John Fraizer (Feb 24)
- Re: Network for Sale Jay (Feb 24)
- Re: Network for Sale John Fraizer (Feb 24)
- Re: Network for Sale Adrian Chadd (Feb 24)
- Re: Network for Sale Paul Vixie (Feb 24)
- Re: Network for Sale John Payne (Feb 24)
- Re: Network for Sale Steven J. Sobol (Feb 24)
- Re: Network for Sale John Fraizer (Feb 24)
- Re: Network for Sale Daniel L. Golding (Feb 24)
- Re: Network for Sale Jon Stanley (Feb 24)
- Re: Network for Sale Paul Vixie (Feb 24)