What ever happened with this? "eXperimental bandwidth delay product code"

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Jul 9 12:02:16 PDT 2003


In the last episode (Jul 09), Max Clark said:
> When you say it's got a specific purpose, I am looking for something
> that will dynamically tune a 6Mbit/s, 220ms network link for bulk
> (500MB) file transfers. Is this what I think it is, or should I be
> looking at something else?

Unless you're doing multiple simultaneous TCP connections it'll only
slow you down.  Your bw*delay product is 6000000/8*.220 = 165Kbytes, so
telling ncftp to set its so-bufsize to say 200K, and telling your ftp
daemon to do the same thing, should be all you need.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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