[2933] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: topological closeness....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Tue May 14 02:37:00 1996
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 23:35:55 +0800
From: avg@postman.ncube.com (Vadim Antonov)
To: avg@postman.ncube.com, jon@branch.com
Cc: mo@uunet.uu.net, nanog@merit.edu
Should i drop into Noel-speak mode and start explaining difference
between O(n) and O(exp(n))?
If something works in several dozens or several hundreds places
does not mean it'll work in million places. And even if it can
work in million places but can't work with two million places
it is only half year worth of growth.
--vadim
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From: jon@branch.com (Jon Zeeff)
Subject: Re: topological closeness....
To: avg@postman.ncube.com (Vadim Antonov)
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 21:48:24 -0400 (EDT)
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> Well, i simply pointed out that solution based on
> *hosts* choosing the best paths in global networks
> is not going to work. It is in the same category as
> source-based routing.
Actually, people do both and it seems to work well enough.
Some web servers track throughput to sites and redirect users to
mirror sites based on that data.
Some routers route based on source address (for various policy reasons,
including load).
