From owner-freebsd-net Thu Oct 28 1: 1:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82DC214CFD for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 01:01:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from craigc@nwlink.com) Received: from craigc (ip133.gte8.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.237.133]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA12590; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 01:01:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <218001bf211b$791005b0$0201010a@fuzzer.com> From: "Craig Critchley" To: "Bill Fumerola" Cc: , "Garrett Wollman" , References: Subject: Re: FTP Net Performance Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 01:07:26 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ah, I've misunderstood the sequence number being ack'd - it's the next byte expected by the reciever, eh? Damn. I've probably been tearing apart the wrong machine. I still don't understand the 1.5 sec delay before BSD resends, though. ...Craig From: Bill Fumerola > On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Craig Critchley wrote: > > > It's the same model netcard as what's in the BSD machine - Netgear FA310TX. > > File sharing between Windows machines is *significantly* faster. I can > > imagine that BSD thinks its already sent as much as the receiver can take, > > but why does it think it needs to resend that particular piece when Windows > > has ack'd it twice (unless doing so is a bad idea - like I said, I'm not > > that much of an expert). > > ACKing twice is an indictation of dropped packets. It says "i'm going to > keep acknowledging the last known good packet until you send me the one > after it." > > .. or something like that. > > -- > - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - > - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message