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Date:      Wed, 04 Oct 1995 02:26:59 +0100
From:      Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        "Hector Gonzalez Jaime." <CACHO@mexicano.gdl.iteso.mx>, taob@io.org, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A moment in the life of ftp.cdrom.com 
Message-ID:  <1492.812770019@palmer.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Oct 1995 08:51:22 %2B0930." <199510032321.IAA14949@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> 

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Michael Smith stands accused of writing in message ID
<199510032321.IAA14949@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>:
>> I think microsoft has won that race, their ftp system told me to go 
>> away last week, they had 1250 ftp users on line.

>Yah, but have you tried to use it past the 600 mark?  Whatever it is just 
>loses its marbles as far as long-distance connections are concerned.
>(At least, that's been my experience)

The problem is what network link you have really. If you can get a
fast enough network connection (perhaps FDDI or 100bTX), you should in
theory be able to handle that number without TOO many problems. Of
course, you'll always have problems with people a couple of hops away
on a fast link swamping your network :-(

Anyone know a way to do traffic limiting? Is it even fair?

Gary



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