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Date:      Wed, 9 Jul 2003 15:21:01 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Max Clark <max.clark@media.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What ever happened with this? "eXperimental bandwidth delay product code"
Message-ID:  <20030709202100.GN39506@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <ILENIMHFIPIBHJLCDEHKEEENCJAA.max.clark@media.net>
References:  <20030709194029.GM39506@dan.emsphone.com> <ILENIMHFIPIBHJLCDEHKEEENCJAA.max.clark@media.net>

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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.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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