Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests

Fri Apr 24 06:21:16 UTC 2009

On Apr 21, 2009, at 6:50 PM, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
>> FTP?  Who uses FTP these days?  Certainly not consumers.  Even Cisco

> 	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.

Large data sets?  So you are saying that 512-byte packets with no  
windowing work better?  Bill, have you measured this?

Time to download a 100mb file over HTTP and a 100mb interface: 20  
seconds.
Time to download a 100mb file over FTP and a 100mb interface: ~7  
minutes.

And yes, that was FreeBSD with the old version openssl library that  
shipped with 6.3.

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Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness