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Re: How many routed hops would be considered too many to leave an AS

  • From: Christian Kuhtz
  • Date: Tue May 15 05:16:52 2001 
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 05:59:35PM -0400, Thomas Gainer wrote:
> 
> Kind of a newbie questions, but I would like to know what the consensus is.

Hmm, until it breaks the application?

Latency is what matters.

That is unless your TTL expires prematurely; in this case
defined as before the applications endpoints can reach each 
other (which in turn could theoretically be a function of
latency as well).

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Christian Kuhtz <[email protected]> -wk, <[email protected]> -hm
Sr. Architect, Engineering & Architecture, BellSouth.net, Atlanta, GA, U.S.
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