Re: Well done Sprint!

[Henry Kilmer <hank () rem com>]

> From my experience, I have yet to see it give realistic numbers on OC3
and OC12 circuits.

Ex-Support Wench writes:
> What do y'all think of pathchar *as it is now*?  How reliable is it for
> determining actual _available bandwidth_?  I thought according to VJ,
> CAIDA, Cisco and even the NSF it was "way-alpha"? 
>
> Steve Blair wrote:
> > well, one could get Van Jacobson's pathchar, and learn the
> > true capacity that way. I could care less what *theoretical
> > bandwidth* is available, when customers complain. I want to
> > know what bandwidth *is available*, and pathchar goes a very
> > long way towards that end.