Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:06:52 -0800 (PST) From: Keith Woodman <keith@lightningweb.com> To: Steve Friedrich <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Boot disk Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981215150337.27109A-100000@nefertiti.lightningweb.com> In-Reply-To: <199812152255.RAA29211@laker.net>
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Well. Looks like my stats are getting substantialy better. Just selected all the packages and began the d-load. It's at about 35KB Not bad. I can't imagine doing this with a modem. I must say, I was set back with some of the available packages. I mean, FreeBSD has to be the only OS in the world that offers sniffit as an install package. :-) . I also saw that staroffice was in there as well. WOW. And after I spent a couple hundred on Applixware. :-( trafshow, bing and tcplist look promising as well. Can't wait to play now. Keith ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Keith Woodman Technical Coordinator Keith@lightningweb.com Lightningweb LLC pid 7962 (sniffit), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Steve Friedrich wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:56:17 -0800 (PST), Keith Woodman wrote: > > >Well. It's installing well now over the net at a scnat 25k. Looks like > >i'll be here for a bit.. > > ftp.freebsd.org is usually servicing about 3500 users at a time. I > sometimes get refused connections because it's at it's limit. It's a > *very* impressive system. Checkout the story, half-way down the page > on http://www.freebsdmall.com/ > Especially follow the link to it's description, which is at > http://www.freebsdmall.com/newsletter1/busiest_ftp_server.phtml > > I think ftp servers can be *tuned* to the size of the pipe. I don't > know if anyone has attempted to tune this one. I believe, anyone > correct me if I'm wrong, that some ftp servers simply assume that any > connection is probably a 33K (or thereabouts) modem, and they just > service all connections at the same priority. I believe, see > disclaimer, that it's possible for an ftp server to determine whether > the pipe is emptying as fast as it gets filled, indicating that it's a > *not* a desktop modem, and they prioritize it slightly higher than > connections that appear to be *slow*, so as to get that connection > satisfied and gone. I believe that the ftp servers that do this base it > on the statistics they get back from downstream... > > Am I all wet?? > > > Steve Friedrich > Viva la FreeBSD!! > Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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