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Subject: Re: RFC 1323 default settings (was Re: progress report on connection problems)
To: jpt@msc.edu (Joseph Thomas)
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> 	As a data point - running a local-area ATM with "out of the box"
> parameters (for 2.2 this looks to be 16K windows with no-scaling), I get
> 60 KB/s out of the box vs 3.0-3.5 MB/s into the box, [notice the really
> bad discrepancy] via ftp. With larger windows (60KB), I can get in the
> range of 3.5-4.0 MB/s [either 'put xxx /dev/null' or 'get xxx /dev/null'
> so local disk access is somewhat unrelated. That is, the numbers don't
> vary much if I'm sending from local disk or receiving to /dev/null.]
> 
> 	Using ttcp (tcp user application, memory to memory), I've transmitted
> close to 70 Mb/s, in the "local-area". I'm not sure that getting twice
> the throughput counts as being 'not long enough'.
> 
> [I'm simply providing this as a data point for the discussion, not attempting
> or interested in arguing for or against either side.]

Uh, isn't 70/3.5 20 times, not 2 times?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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