[BioPython] versioning, distribution and webdav

Andrew Dalke dalke@acm.org
Tue, 15 May 2001 03:57:43 -0600


Rune Linding <linding@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> said:
> as far as i know ebi is on the cambridge oc3 155 mbit nonredundant line
>
>and  embl-heidelberg.de is on a 34 mbit (e3) to DFN and from frankfurt
>we go on a dual oc12 622 mbit across the atlantic

Going backwards, a traceroute shows (with some touchup to fill in
a few missing host names)

> /usr/sbin/traceroute -i le0:2 ftp.ebi.ac.uk
traceroute to alpha4.ebi.ac.uk (193.62.196.103), 30 hops max, 40 byte
packets
 1  irx2 (207.225.60.129)  2.716 ms  2.286 ms  2.180 ms
 2  44.s5-1-0.albq-cust.albq.uswest.net (207.108.242.61)  8.017 ms  7.906 ms
7.59
1 ms
 3  fa0-0.albq-gw2.albq.uswest.net (207.108.240.251)  8.346 ms  7.826 ms
7.929 ms
 4  sl-gw11-ana-6-1-0.sprintlink.net (144.228.207.161)  26.800 ms  27.439 ms
26.0
53 ms
 5  sl-bb20-ana-3-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.1.57)  27.353 ms  27.677 ms
27.031 ms
 6  sl-gw23-ana-9-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.1.212)  27.056 ms  26.815 ms
26.784 m
s
 7  sl-teleglobe-5-0.sprintlink.net (160.81.103.30)  28.337 ms  28.944 ms
28.301
ms
 8  if-3-0.core1.LosAngeles.Teleglobe.net (64.86.83.133)  28.863 ms  28.189
ms  27
.868 ms
 9  if-9-0.core1.NewYork.Teleglobe.net (207.45.220.57)  96.582 ms  96.062 ms
96.1
55 ms
10  if-10-0.bb8.NewYork.Teleglobe.net (207.45.223.110)  95.810 ms  96.077 ms
94.8
59 ms
11  ix-9-2.bb8.NewYork.Teleglobe.net (207.45.198.94)  95.444 ms  95.799 ms
95.685
 ms
12  us-gw2.ja.net (193.62.157.17)  162.386 ms  161.701 ms  162.779 ms
13  london-bar2.ja.net (128.86.1.44)  163.051 ms  162.046 ms  162.575 ms
14  pos10-0.lond-scr.ja.net (146.97.35.5)  178.208 ms  179.065 ms  178.888
ms
15  cambridge-bar.ja.net (146.97.35.10)  177.167 ms  184.733 ms  165.856 ms
16  cam-pop.ja.net (146.97.37.2)  182.765 ms  194.985 ms  183.609 ms
17  hinxton-pop.ja.net (193.60.0.6)  264.511 ms  256.153 ms  239.421 ms
18  194.66.91.18 (194.66.91.18)  219.149 ms  188.952 ms  227.889 ms
19  alpha4.ebi.ac.uk (193.62.196.103)  199.498 ms  221.702 ms  218.143 ms

20 hops and 5 domains.  (This was from their gateway machine - the real
machines are one hop farther but they don't pass UDP connections through
the firewall.)

Which of those do you think has the lowest bandwidth?

                    Andrew
                    dalke@acm.org