netselect - choosing the best FTP server automatically

["James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>]

Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca> writes:
>Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>> My question is how can we build a single weighted score for each
>> site? Let the user pick one of the top two or so. But how do you
>> weight?
>
>Assuming that the packet loss and timing statistics were made more
>reliable...
>
>I would say that packet loss and delay are of almost equal
>importance, and hop count considerably less.

I suggest:
              (1 - packet_loss) / average_delay

If you multiplied this by the size of the packets, it would be
approximately the bandwidth (bytes per second).

                                     - Jim Van Zandt


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