[27835] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alternative to BGP-4 for multihoming?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (k claffy)
Wed Mar 15 16:31:18 2000
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:23:55 -0800
From: k claffy <kc@caida.org>
To: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>
Cc: Andrew Bender <abender@tns-inc.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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if you're into available src code
might want to also look at
http://www.caida.org/Tools/taxsum.html#clink
(allan downey)
http://www.caida.org/Tools/taxsum.html#pchar
(bruce mah)
and other stuff on
http://www.caida.org/Tools/taxonomy.html
under "Internet Throughput"
k
Hello Andrew , Have you heard from anyone (hopefully Mr.
Van Jacobson) when they/he may release the sources to this
tool ? All of the emails to the suggested (which I forget)
comments/suggestions address go unanswered & afaict unseen .
I am hoping someone may have heard something . Tia, JimL
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Andrew Bender wrote:
> 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
>
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