Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 07:41:31 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1 release sysinstall Message-ID: <199511251541.HAA04661@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Nov 1995 06:34:51 PST." <1853.817223691@time.cdrom.com>
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>>> "Jordan K. Hubbard" said: > > I think that what he's asking for is that sysinstall pings each > > one in the list to automatically find the closest, or at least fastest, > > site nearest to him... > > Ah. Well, that would be both time consuming to collect and, as far > as getting the remote system's load average is concerned, currently > impossible.. :-( > > If those are the kinds of features that Amancio wants, then he wants > the Internet as it will be in a few more years. :) Hi, We can still do it with snmp queries ... We could issue parallel queries to the designated target machines and wait lets way wait for 30 seconds or so for the queries to come back. The snmp query could be to request the number of ftp connections or the current system load --- that your pick or do both :) We got an snmp expert in the house, Pohl... What do think? Enjoy, Amancio
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