[27825] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Bender)
Wed Mar 15 09:43:34 2000
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:43:08 -0500
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Gary E. Miller wrote:
> And I sure hope that HOP count is not used, Singapore has a
> mixture of very fast and very slow links to foreign countries
> so hop count is a useless measure of "closeness".
Quite possibly, if used by itself. Dr. Jacobsen's method
(http://www.caida.org/Pathchar) is a proven strategy that could
provide some relief here, but may be impractical interactively.
Then again, isn't any interactive measurement going to be
impractical?
Andrew Bender
tns-inc.com
