Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 17:23:17 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly Message-ID: <200001220123.RAA59410@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <200001220021.QAA22981@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "Jan 21, 2000 04:21:48 pm"
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> 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 :-) -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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