[72581] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Regional differences in P2P
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Sun Jul 18 02:54:08 2004
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 08:53:35 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040718015858.GA19794@caida.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, k claffy wrote:
> servent, it's not like the network figures out the available
> bandwidth to potential remote clients. that's a pretty loose
> definition of intelligence, believing everything you hear from
> an end host :)
Well, if the p2p program gets chunks of data from all sources, anyone with
a faster uplink will complete faster and thus get more chunks (as the p2p
program requests new chunks from each peer as the previous one is
finished), and thus produce more traffic. Not much intelligence, just the
way they work.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
