How do you know the latency of the path if you haven't synchronized the clocks...
You might be able to control the latency on a LAN, but once you have servers in different locations, good luck. (GPS helps a lot, of course...)
How do you know the latency of the path if you haven't synchronized the clocks...
You might be able to control the latency on a LAN, but once you have servers in different locations, good luck. (GPS helps a lot, of course...)
There is this command called 'ping' that tells you that. But in my example, I included the network topology as a known, static factor.
> There is this command called 'ping' that tells you that.
Ping tells you the round trip latency. As I mentioned, asymmetric routing is common and very difficult to measure.
> But in my example, I included the network topology as a known, static factor.
Ok, so spherical cows.