> With this I meant that I can measure something, but only within a subset > of the entire path a packet might traverse.
considering your original hypothesis was about length of paths, this seems a kind of dead end. you might get a modest improvement by turning off hot potato :) > so not end-to-end which is the problem > And what might be true for us might not be true for others. yes. but if it actually measured what we wanted, it would be a useful measurement. but it doesn't. randy