LC> Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 13:13:53 -0800 LC> From: "Cottrell, Les" LC> The link from StarLight to Amsterdam was put in place for a man 4 dummynet LC> High speed at reasonable costs are the end-goal. However, it LC> is important to be able to plan for when one will need such LC> links, to know what one will be able to achieve, and for LC> regular users to be ready to use them when the commonly LC> available. This takes some effort up front to achieve and LC> demonstrate. The thing is we already know that large buffers help greatly. Seeing how fast one can push a box with big buffers might be cool, but is it accomplishing anything? As you demonstrated, anyone who needs that speed here and now can get a private line and use a stock *ix install. Done/done. How about other models? Limited server buffers (it's nice to handle more than 25 simultaneous streams), random-bandwidth clients, congestion, jitter... how were those treated? Have these been explored? If there's going to be research, let's see some TCP stack tuning and the results. Investigating other protocols would be nice; perhaps the scope of the contest should be changed. The level of "research" in unleashing bone-stock equipment is more appropriate for an undergrad paper than a news release. Eddy -- Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division Bandwidth, consulting, e-commerce, hosting, and network building Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence and [inter]national Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:23:58 +0000 (GMT) From: A Trap <blacklist@brics.com> To: blacklist@brics.com Subject: Please ignore this portion of my mail signature. These last few lines are a trap for address-harvesting spambots. Do NOT send mail to <blacklist@brics.com>, or you are likely to be blocked.