Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 23:17:50 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Eric Anholt <anholt@FreeBSD.org>, "" <all-committers@FreeBSD.org>, "" <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT access access.master access.ports Message-ID: <20030205231630.D32815-100000@patrocles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <20030205233916.6156C2A89E@canning.wemm.org> References: <20030205233916.6156C2A89E@canning.wemm.org>
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On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Peter Wemm wrote: > By the way, did you know our tcp stack actually works with 15 second > round-trip latency? It is rather unpleasant to try and do something > interactively over though. It is amazing what pathological things you > can do with dummynet and a large buffer, plus buffering in natd, plus > buffering in userland ppp, plus a flakey modem link that kept retraining. > > And to think that I thought 2500ms (2.5 seconds) was painful (I worked on > freebsd with between 400 and 2500ms latency for years). > > Cheers, > -Peter Didn't Harti Brandt say that he was working on satelite communications? Perhaps he has plans to allow even larger RTTs to work well. :) "FreeBSD: The best connection to Mars... or AOL" Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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