Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 17:29:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: Emmanuel DELOGET <pixel@DotCom.FR> To: hafner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Walter Hafner) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Hackers Mail List) Subject: Re: IP Type of service (FTP proxy in German c`t) Message-ID: <199904071529.PAA24816@excalibur.oceanis.net> In-Reply-To: <srj3e2cfph4.fsf@hprbg5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> from Walter Hafner at "Apr 7, 1999 4:57:11 pm"
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As the well known Walter Hafner said... ->>From 5 to 14 KB/s ... and that's reproducable, not only for this ->specific host. I experienced a speedup for some hosts I tested. -> ->e.g. ftp.xig.com 4.5 KB/s --> 14 KB/s -> ftp.sendmail.org 1.9 - 2.3 KB/s --> 2 - 14 KB/s -> ftp.vix.com 1.5 - 2.8 KB/s --> 5 - 14 KB/s -> These 14 KB/s are very strange. It seems that the product do something like file caching (or whatever you want to call it : saving [part of] accessed files on the local disk. [yes, it's a proxy, my son]. But 14 KB/s is very slow for a 'local disk to localhost to localhost' connection. My idea of this (sorry Walter) is : they created a great article with some nasty april fools inside. Then, they coded a real proxy, and slow down it in order to give the user some feeling such as "Hey, look at that ! My INet downloads are faster that yours !". The ftp proxy does not speed up the connecton. It just slow down local transferts in order to emulate a faster connection. :) Oh. This is what I think. This may not be the truth, of course. My name is *not* God. ->Well, download the proxy and test for yourself. It runs on FreeBSD ->3.1. I _am_ worried. We allready have a ftp/http/whatever proxy installed. But I'll try it at home soon :) -> ->-Walter -> ->-- ->Walter Hafner__________________________________ hafner@in.tum.de -> <A href=http://www.tum.de/~hafner/>*CLICK*</A>; -> "Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, ->"are a sure sign of a diseased mind." (Terry Pratchett, "Eric") -- ____________________________________________________________________ Emmanuel DELOGET [pixel] pixel@{dotcom.fr,epita.fr} ---- DotCom SA -------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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