What ever happened with this? "eXperimentalbandwidthdelayproduct code"

[Dirk-Willem van Gulik]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Max Clark wrote:

> > We've done this in the past for protocols such as ftp, http and smtp; and
> it works wonders.
>
> The protocol is FTP, what sort of proxy are you talking about here? I would
> like to have...

Commercial/Custom written; mostly based on the apache framework.

                        A                                  B
> ftp server <LAN> freebsd proxy <---Network Link---> freebsd proxy <LAN>
> Windows PC
>
> I assumed that my first step in this configuration is going to be getting
> the two freebsd boxes tuned and performing correctly.

For that just follow:

> 	http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2488.html

And make sure you have met your requirements between A & B. Once that is
done and confirmed working you can start thinking how to do the proxy
things. There are quite a few ways to do it depening on what sort of use,
user population, number of ftp sites behind the proxy, internet or not,etc.

Dw.