Danny Thomas writes :
 > "Andrew S. Clapp" <andrew@sedona.net> writes
 > >Where can I find more infomation about this?

 > it's also mentioned in Craig Partridge's excellent and broad-ranging
 > "Gigabit Networking".

Additional references you might find interesting:

	http://www.research.digital.com/wrl/publications/abstracts/91.11.html
		- Jeffrey Mogul's paper on Network Locality

	http://nosferatu.nas.nasa.gov/~rat/netlocal.txt
		- A short more-or-less technical report I wrote about this

http://almond.srv.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/coda/Web/docdir/ipw88.ps.Z
		- IPwatch: performance issues of locality on distributed
			systems at Carnegie Mellon University

Hope at least some of this is useful...

	-rAT

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