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Date:      Fri, 21 Jan 2000 17:39:23 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly
Message-ID:  <20000121173923.A44132@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001211857080.59825-100000@picnic.mat.net>; from chuckr@picnic.mat.net on Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 07:03:51PM -0500
References:  <20000121154014.B43755@dragon.nuxi.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001211857080.59825-100000@picnic.mat.net>

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On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 07:03:51PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote:
> I don't know ... I think it might be a good idea for the cvsup client to
> make a connection to a cvsup master, get redirected from that master to
> the actual handler of the connection, and then work.  That way, a config
> file on the master could be set up to know the capabilities of the other
> machines (network availability, machine speed, etc) and dole out
> connections weighted on that.

How is a cvsup master to know anything about the path from me to any
given cvsup mirror?  Knowing something about the path from me to the
master and the path from the master to the mirror tells zero about the
path from me to the mirror.

Being on an .EDU network, I have a *very* different path to other .EDU
machine participating in Inetnet2.  My path to cvsup3 is a prime example.
This "cvsup master" will have no idea about this.

-- 
-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com)


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