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

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Jul 9 13:21:03 PDT 2003


In the last episode (Jul 09), Max Clark said:
> Assuming zero (0) network latency what should I configure on my
> FreeBSD boxes to saturate a 6Mbit/s (750Kbyte/s) link?

Assuming zero latency, absolutely nothing :)  You can easily saturate a
100mbit LAN connection (which has like a 12K bw*d product) even with
IDE disks.  Latency and packetloss are the killers.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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