[ENet-discuss] icmp/tracert/discovering network topology?

[Jay Sprenkle]

Yes, I have no control over where the player's computers are. Counting hops
was the only way I could come up with to get an easy measure of connection
speed without giving everyone the whole list and asking them to measure the
speed.

I thought about asking their systems to measure the speed then cache it. I'm
not sure how often topology changes or if dynamic routing might invalidate
my stored results though.

Thanks for the help with this.

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Ruud van Gaal <ruud at racer.nl> wrote:

>  Aha, you're not on the original computer. :)
> In that case, depending on how many computers need to check how many
> computers, I'd opt for algorithm #1. Counting hops doesn't really say much I
> think, also depending on how much you know of the topology involved. If all
> computers are under your control, counting hops can work, but I assume
> you're talking about computers randomly on the internet?
>
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