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- From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: Re: Is there a Internet distance measure?
- Date: 9 Sep 1992 23:41:00 -0400
- Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:
- : > MIPSos 5.0 has traceroute, which it didn't in the past. I don't
- : > know of any other major OS vendor who ships traceroute...
-
- : Really? I would have guessed everyone ships it.
- : What about BSDI? I bet it's there.
-
- yup, it's in BSDI. In the TGV Multinet software too (*knew* there was a
- reason we recommended that) which made finger-pointing on a network
- performance problem relatively easy.
-
- traceroute not only collects information about where the packets go, but
- also how long it too to get each step of the way. a day's worth of traces
- on a given path is very instructive, & no doubt could be used to good
- effect to help people figure out where network re-engineering would make
- sense, much more so than static packet counts.
-
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- Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, MSEN Inc. emv@msen.com
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