Keynote/Boardwatch Results

Wed Jul 9 03:40:22 UTC 1997

> It would appear that everyone is pretty smugly satisfied by concensus that
> the performance series we ran actually measures server performance and that
> since all ISPs run weeny home servers, this was not "really" a test, flawed
> methodology, etc.  I corresponded with Doug the Hump at Digex about this. 
> I've liked this guy since I first met him largely because he's funny and
> doesn't take himself too seriously.  He's got a yen for black helicopters
> that still has me in stitches.

Humph.  Doug the Hump indeed.  Well, Alex @ our shop wants an Apache
Helicopter for our NOC as well.  I'm laughing because I'm not sure anyone's
called him that before...

Anyway, I'm thinking of putting www.netaxs.net on one of our core routers :)

Think that'd help?

Actually, what we'd do is make it a loopback interface on all of our
core routers and thus you'd hit whatever the closest router to the
querying machine is, bypassing much of the network.

Hmm.  Have to try that one out.

Anyway, I have to take a look at some of the test sites (saw some of
them listed in the new Directory) and see if I can figure out some
of the topology of the testing.

Jack - could you put up IPs or whatnot of the sources (the test sites)
for people to "tune" and test to?

> jack.rickard at boardwatch.com                     Littleton, CO 80123

Avi