From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 9 13:21:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02C6C37B404 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 13:21:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2849843FE1 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 13:21:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h69KL1n6009413; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 15:21:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 15:21:01 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Max Clark Message-ID: <20030709202100.GN39506@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030709194029.GM39506@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What ever happened with this? "eXperimental bandwidth delay product code" X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 20:21:03 -0000 In the last episode (Jul 09), Max Clark said: > Assuming zero (0) network latency what should I configure on my > FreeBSD boxes to saturate a 6Mbit/s (750Kbyte/s) link? Assuming zero latency, absolutely nothing :) You can easily saturate a 100mbit LAN connection (which has like a 12K bw*d product) even with IDE disks. Latency and packetloss are the killers. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com