[99810] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: two questions - SWAG answers entertained
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Fri Oct 5 07:42:22 2007
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 11:41:21 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <470578F0.6030907@psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 08:36:16AM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
> > one: AS hop count for average e2e packet flow, eg. from origin to destination,
> > how many ASN's will a packet traverse?
>
> wrong forum. there have been good formal measurement papers on this.
> do a lit search.
>
> randy
ere, this might be the ideal forum. citseer is very helpful,
some formal analysis from a few data points. my request
for SWAG data from operations folks was/is a way to sanity check
simulation work that forms the basis for much of the formal
papers. anyway...
thanks to the kind folks who have (mercifully) responded off list.
we now return you to the usual NANOG postings.
--bill
