Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:13:34 +0200 From: Rudi Opperman <rudi@askas.co.za> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: how to determine the speed of a connection dynamically ? Message-ID: <37119D1E.8E6FF98F@askas.co.za>
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hi hope this is the correct place to ask this ... Suppose i have a server (eg http) that wants to respond dynamically to various clients connecting at variable speeds .. (eg no compression for fast links, lossy compession for slow links ). What is the best way to determine such characteristics of a connection (assuming a connection oriented protocol) and what does one do with connectionless protocols? Also how would a proxy/gateway complicate analysis? I seems too simplistic to ping based on source address and then use derived timing info as accurate - but this was suggested as a solution! I would assume that there would be some protocol dedicated to deriving this info tia rudi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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