From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 1 21:14:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA01844 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 21:14:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA01839 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 21:14:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA07916; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 21:06:52 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199612020506.VAA07916@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: lestat.nas.nasa.gov: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Stephen Hocking Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP/IP bandwidth bragging Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 21:06:51 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 02 Dec 1996 13:15:57 +1000 Stephen Hocking wrote: > A Linux zealot has the following in his sig - what's our current ability? You should read the flame war that ensued on the freebsd and netbsd USENET groups... (Erm, note that there's no mention about how many connections were open, or how active the machine was :-) > ---------------------------------------------//// > Yow! 11.26 MB/s remote host TCP bandwidth & //// > 199 usec remote TCP latency over 100Mb/s //// > ethernet. Beat that! //// > -----------------------------------------////__________ o > David S. Miller, davem@caip.rutgers.edu /_____________/ / // /_/ >< Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939