Re: (it must be lost)

Matt Crawford <crawdad@munin.fnal.gov> Fri, 14 January 1994 01:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: (it must be lost)
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 13 Jan 94 14:04:34 PST. <199401132204.AA17395@remmel.NSD.3Com.COM>
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From: Matt Crawford <crawdad@munin.fnal.gov>

> > I would propose "logarithmic" time -> TTL translation; i.e.
> > 
> > 	1/16 sec delay equals 1 hop
> > 	1/8 sec == 2 hops
> > 	1/4 sec == 3 hops
> > 
> > etc.  I'm not sure what the implications of that scheme are.
> 
> Aside from possibly confusing traceroute, this looks ok.

If I have to send my traffic with an initial TTL of 40 or more to get
across the diameter of the net, and if "etc" denotes an unbounded
geometric progression, my packets could sit in various queues for
literally hours before delivery.

Suppose you make the time -- hop mapping turn linear at some
reasonable point.  Perhaps let each additional second after (32
sec/10 hops) or (64 sec/11 hops) count as an entire hop again.

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Matt Crawford          crawdad@fnal.gov          Fermilab