In a message written on Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 09:53:30PM +0200, Petri Helenius wrote:
Sure, if you control both endpoints. If you don�t and receivers have small (4k,8k or 16k) window sizes, your performance will suffer.
Maybe we should define if we�re talking about record breaking attempts or real operationally useful things here.
Google and Akamai are just two examples of companies with hundreds of thousands of machines where they move large amounts of data between them and have control of both ends. Many corporations are now moving off-site backup data over the Internet, in large volumes between two end points they control. The Internet is not just web servers feeding dial-up clients. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org