From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 7 8:31:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from excalibur.oceanis.net (ns.dotcom.fr [195.154.74.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADDD414CE1 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 08:31:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pixel@excalibur.oceanis.net) Received: (from pixel@localhost) by excalibur.oceanis.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA24816; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 15:29:05 GMT From: Emmanuel DELOGET Message-Id: <199904071529.PAA24816@excalibur.oceanis.net> Subject: Re: IP Type of service (FTP proxy in German c`t) In-Reply-To: from Walter Hafner at "Apr 7, 1999 4:57:11 pm" To: hafner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Walter Hafner) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 17:29:05 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Hackers Mail List) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As the well known Walter Hafner said... ->>From 5 to 14 KB/s ... and that's reproducable, not only for this ->specific host. I experienced a speedup for some hosts I tested. -> ->e.g. ftp.xig.com 4.5 KB/s --> 14 KB/s -> ftp.sendmail.org 1.9 - 2.3 KB/s --> 2 - 14 KB/s -> ftp.vix.com 1.5 - 2.8 KB/s --> 5 - 14 KB/s -> These 14 KB/s are very strange. It seems that the product do something like file caching (or whatever you want to call it : saving [part of] accessed files on the local disk. [yes, it's a proxy, my son]. But 14 KB/s is very slow for a 'local disk to localhost to localhost' connection. My idea of this (sorry Walter) is : they created a great article with some nasty april fools inside. Then, they coded a real proxy, and slow down it in order to give the user some feeling such as "Hey, look at that ! My INet downloads are faster that yours !". The ftp proxy does not speed up the connecton. It just slow down local transferts in order to emulate a faster connection. :) Oh. This is what I think. This may not be the truth, of course. My name is *not* God. ->Well, download the proxy and test for yourself. It runs on FreeBSD ->3.1. I _am_ worried. We allready have a ftp/http/whatever proxy installed. But I'll try it at home soon :) -> ->-Walter -> ->-- ->Walter Hafner__________________________________ hafner@in.tum.de -> *CLICK* -> "Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, ->"are a sure sign of a diseased mind." (Terry Pratchett, "Eric") -- ____________________________________________________________________ Emmanuel DELOGET [pixel] pixel@{dotcom.fr,epita.fr} ---- DotCom SA -------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message