On 19/12/2014 14:49, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: >>> Boutier's version of mosh builds connections across all source/destination >>> pairs, and picks the one with lowest RTT. > >> Sounds interesting. In the ideal world, that would be a pluggable >> policy algorithm. Lowest RTT may not always be the best choice. > > It is, in our particular context. That's the nice thing about working at > the application layer -- you are the application, so you have a pretty > good idea of what the desirable properties are. Mosh is an interactive > shell, and in this particular context it's latency you want to optimise > for.
Are you sure? Suppose I open a file transfer window (which as a matter of fact I do almost every time I use SSH these days). For large file transfers I might want to specify "cheapest" not "fastest". > Once we gain some real-world experience from mosh, we can think about > making something more generic. But I, at least, don't feel comfortable > about doing that. Understood. But all I'm thinking is that you might make that bit a self-contained module. Brian _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet