From: utzoo!decvax!genradbo!linus!smk
Newsgroups: net.news,net.wanted,net.general
Title: looking for the program that optimizes net paths
Article-I.D.: linus.4472
Posted: Sun Jan 16 11:02:10 1983
Received: Tue Jan 18 19:29:30 1983

	There has been talk off and on about a program that figures
the optimum path to get from machine a to b, using things like
path distance, link reliability, link speed, polling times, ...
Such a program should have been made an integral part of the
news/uucp/USENET software, but since it's not, I wuold like to
incorporate into our system.

	I would greatly appreciate someone sending me the program.
However, I think the program should be posted to net.sources.  If
it is large, it's usefulnes will outweigh the size needed to
transmit it.  If enough people use it, it will cut down on much
of the traffic on the net, by eliminating machines whenever possible
and also eliminating the delay.