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Hi Joe, I was merely pointing out that it's not as accurate. The solution proposed would work, but would not be accurate. For rough information (as a FIX equivalent of the network PING request) it would work just fine. I was merely saying that we have found in practive that it's not worth the effort, since the value derived is not of high enough value. I totally agree that the solution that worked for us is at the network level (outside of FIX) but requires FIX knowledge to correlate the messages together. There are some network level vendors that do this. Ian > My reply inline, below. > > > Whatever solution you chose can NOT involve the downstream system to > > insert/modify/etc any tags. > > I thought that was the whole idea of this web site. To share ideas and > creative solutions, that may necessitate new FIX tags. :) > > > > > Also, the clock slew you'd try to contend with makes any 2 clock > > system invalid. > > > > There are solutions to this problem. But they are unrelated to FIX. > > > You have to measure on a single system, so you have to use an echo > > type of solution, where you > > > > 1. send a message, start timer > > 2. receive the return msg, stop timer > > 3. Calculate difference > > > > Ian > > > > We do this already with existing messages. But the extra tag(s) would > let us provide more value to both Operations and Traders. [You can unsubscribe from this discussion group by sending a message to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Financial Information eXchange" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/FIX-Protocol?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
