[HECnet] Revisiting circuit costs

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-01-20 18:14, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>> I use physical distance as a proxy for this.
>
>    Why use a proxy?  As a first approximation you could use ping to measure the round trip times to the other host.  A fast ping time == lower circuit cost.

We could definitely do that.
However, decnet.jfcl.com do not respond to pings... :-(

	Johnny

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