Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests

Wed Apr 22 14:33:22 UTC 2009

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 02:27:14PM +0000, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:17:38AM -0400, Joe Abley wrote:
> > 
> > On 21-Apr-2009, at 21:50, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> > 
> > >On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:24:38PM -0400, Ricky Beam wrote:
> > >>
> > >
> > >>FTP?  Who uses FTP these days?  Certainly not consumers.  Even Cisco
> > >>pushes almost everything via a webserver. (they still have ftp  
> > >>servers,
> > >>they just don't put much on them these days.)
> > >
> > >	well, pretty much anyone who has large datasets to move around.
> > >	that default 64k buffer in the openssl libs pretty much sucks
> > >	rocks for large data flows.
> > 
> > So you're saying FTP with no SSL is better than HTTP with no SSL?
> > 
> > 
> > Joe
> > 
> 
> 	(see me LEAPING to conclusions....)
> 
> 	yes.  (although I was actually thinking  http w/ SSL vs FTP w/o SSL)
> 	a really good review of the options was presented at the DoE/JT meeting
> 	at UNL last summer.  Basically, tuned FTP w/ large window support is
> 	still king for pushing large datasets around.
> 
> 
> --bill

	whiner Joe...  here's the link:  http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/jt2008jul/20080720-tierney.pdf


--bill