At 5:07 PM -0500 2000/1/21, Louis A. Mamakos wrote:
> As John mentioned earlier, what your probably most interested in is
> patch quality (e.g., minimum packet loss) first and latency second as
> far as network characteristics are concerned. Simply measure them if
> you choose rather than trying to understand why the latency is what is.
> Trying to predict path quality based on observed topology is hard to
> do in an automated fashion. Sure, you can employ some simply heuristics
> as a human (e.g., don't go through MAE-EAST - it sucks there) and the
> occasional traceroute will reduce your candidate list of servers to a
> likely set which won't suck and are in the same hemisphere.
That's fine. But we can at least automate this simple 20%, can't we?
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