[13675] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Well done Sprint!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig A. Huegen)
Thu Nov 13 19:57:51 1997
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 16:47:27 -0800 (PST)
From: "Craig A. Huegen" <chuegen@quadrunner.com>
To: Ex-Support Wench <alex@shell2.tiac.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971113193108.17923A-100000@shell2.tiac.net>
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Ex-Support Wench wrote:
I thought it has a lot of great potential usage; however, I was dismayed
at how much traffic it generates.
As far as way-alpha goes, it still requires a bit of tuning. I tried the
first edition, and it constantly reported my 10 Mbit ethernet as an 83
Mbit cable. While I like the idea that my network equipment might be able
to suck the bits right out of the machine, making them move faster, I
noticed it needed some accuracy adjustments.
(Note: The shortly-thereafter-released second version did fix that and
brought the bandwidths down.)
/cah
==>What do y'all think of pathchar *as it is now*? How reliable is it for
==>determining actual _available bandwidth_? I thought according to VJ,
==>CAIDA, Cisco and even the NSF it was "way-alpha"?
==>
