Hi,
A question borne out of idle curiosity if I may... How are the figures calculated for the Tunnel Latency Stats (http://tunnelbroker.net/usage/tunnels_by_latency.php) page?
I understand that the latency is periodically measured from the relevent tunnel server - presumably by sending pings? If so, how many and when? Are multiple pings sent in succession to account for any pre-connectivity lookups (Layer 2 addressing) etc that would otherwise skew the results?
Again, just curiosity that's all.. :)
Mathew
Once a week, the client side of the v6 tunnel is pinged 5 times from the tunnel-server, and the average is the result stored. They are scheduled for early AM, Pacific Time.
Ah okay, thanks!
Mathew
I would suggest that the pings not be exactly weekly, but every 6 or 8 days. The reason for the variance is to avoid hitting the same weekly time and thus being skewed by any weekly cron jobs that [client] tunnel endpoint machines are running. By being an even number, test time also slips around when we have odd months (months with an odd number of days).