At 11:20 AM -0700 2000/1/24, Warner Losh wrote:
> Agreed. The making lots of connections was a bad idea. However, I've
> rarely seen low latency and low bandwidth go together.
I have. Until recently, we had only a 512KB line between our
operations facilities here in Brussels and the AMS-IX in Amsterdam.
This is why our Network Manager didn't want me to add any news
peerings across that link -- even just a GB/day could be a very
significant load on that small of a connection. And I've seen some
of our customers operating rather popular sites behind ISDN lines.
If you tried a high-bandwidth cvsup on a system like that, the
copper might melt! ;-)
> Agreed. But in the abasense of intellegence at one end is causing
> problems at the other end.
Understood. That's why I suggest a more general solution needs
more intelligence on both ends -- not a whole lot on the client side,
just enough to have a useful dialog with a server regarding
bandwidth, latency, network drops, etc... between the client and the
server, the server utilization, the servers knowledge of other
servers that exist and serve that information (and the latest
information it might have as to their utilization), and the ability
to be able to follow the references that are supplied.
--
These are my opinions and should not be taken as official Skynet policy
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