From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 21 16:22: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (216-200-29-190.snj0.flashcom.net [216.200.29.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E99C5156B4; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:22:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA22981; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:21:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <200001220021.QAA22981@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: John Polstra , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:40:14 PST." <20000121154014.B43755@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:21:48 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 .... -- Amancio Hasty hasty@rah.star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message