On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:09:51PM +0100, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
Production commercial networks need not apply, 'lest someone realize that they blow away these speed records on a regular basis.
What kind of production environment needs a single TCP stream of data at 1 gigabit/s over a 150ms latency link?
Probably not many, but it's quite possible. I've done 1 Gbps streams off a single box before, it's not much harder to take it out 150ms. Heck for their 60 second test, you could buy some GigE transit ports from someone with a STM64 across the pond and not even pay for it in 95th percentile. :)
Just the fact that you need a ~20 megabyte TCP window size to achieve this (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here) seems kind of unusal to me.
And you can't afford 20MB of RAM because...? -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)