[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > CFI (Computer Frontiers International) were to setup a stats > server at the > IX to capture this data. > > ...only customers connected to the ISP will be able to view the > > stats on the stats server. Other users, on the greater > Internet, will not. > > > > I may have said this before,
You did, actually... >but people in many other places _really > dislike_ the idea of having a host of any sort on the exchange subnet > itself... Most people would put the stats server elsewhere, so it > wouldn't run into a reachability problem. > > -Bill Indeed, yet another plausible option. The issue here would be to ensure that the stats server gathers information as_seen_from_the_IX, and not from an ISP perspective, as is the current case (albeit it could still be hosted by an ISP). Regards, Mark Tinka Technical Manager, Africa Online Swaziland --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
