At 10:23 AM -0500 2000/1/24, Mr. K. wrote:
> Why don't we use the download accelerator
> (http://www.lidan.com/) methodology and make simultaneous connections to
> the top 4 sites as discovered by ping? :)
As mentioned before, not all sites allow ICMP packets through
their networks.
In addition, ping only deals with the network latency issue, and
not very well at that -- it's only an instantaneous measure. Since
cvsup sessions tend to last relatively long periods of time, even if
you were to look at just latency, you would want something that would
look at minimum, maximum, standard deviation, and median latency over
similar relatively long periods of time.
Of course, there are also host loading and bandwidth issues,
network congestion & drops problems, network route flapping issues,
and a whole host of other things that you'd also want to look at.
As I said before, I don't think any one simple solution to this
problem will do the job.
--
These are my opinions and should not be taken as official Skynet policy
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