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From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT access access.master access.ports
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On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Peter Wemm wrote:

> By the way, did you know our tcp stack actually works with 15 second
> round-trip latency?  It is rather unpleasant to try and do something
> interactively over though.  It is amazing what pathological things you
> can do with dummynet and a large buffer, plus buffering in natd, plus
> buffering in userland ppp, plus a flakey modem link that kept retraining.
>
> And to think that I thought 2500ms (2.5 seconds) was painful (I worked on
> freebsd with between 400 and 2500ms latency for years).
>
> Cheers,
> -Peter

Didn't Harti Brandt say that he was working on satelite communications?
Perhaps he has plans to allow even larger RTTs to work well. :)

"FreeBSD:  The best connection to Mars... or AOL"

Mike "Silby" Silbersack

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