Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> Hi David,
> 
> John can implement a ping echo packet protocol for cvsup whose
> response can have "cool" information on the server. Steven's
> book on Networking already has the code for doing network latency
> calculations . It is more like if John has the time to implement
> such scheme ....

You don't even need to modify the protocol.  Just write a small
tcp program that times the 3 way handshake on open to all the
servers, take the one with the sortest time and spit that out
for the user to stuff in his cvsupfile.

15 lines of perl should be more than enough :-)

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Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25)               [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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