[100357] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geo.)
Mon Oct 22 08:45:56 2007
From: "Geo." <geoincidents@nls.net>
To: "Perry Lorier" <perry@meta.net.nz>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:35:38 -0400
In-Reply-To: <471C93A9.4080601@meta.net.nz>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Would stronger topological sharing be beneficial? If so, how do you=20
> suggest end users software get access to the information required to=20
> make these decisions in an informed manner?
I would think simply looking at the TTL of packets from it's peers =
should be sufficient to decide who is close and who is far away.
The problem comes in do you pick someone who is 2 hops away but only has =
12K upload or do you pick someone 20 hops away but who has 1M upload? I =
mean obviously from the point of view of a file sharer, it's speed not =
location that is important.=20
Geo.
George Roettger
Netlink Services
