From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 3 18:34:42 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA08666 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 18:34:42 -0700 Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA08647 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 18:34:30 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id CAA01494 ; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 02:27:03 +0100 To: Michael Smith cc: "Hector Gonzalez Jaime." , taob@io.org, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: A moment in the life of ftp.cdrom.com In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Oct 1995 08:51:22 +0930." <199510032321.IAA14949@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 02:26:59 +0100 Message-ID: <1492.812770019@palmer.demon.co.uk> From: Gary Palmer Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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