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From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
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Subject: Re: TCP/IP bandwidth bragging
To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 09:38:03 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu, hackers@freebsd.org, iain@sbs.de,
        sparclinux@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199612030551.WAA02750@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Dec 2, 96 10:51:11 pm
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> But you haven't show an *real world* example of a known, heavily-loaded
> system that is beat to death that you can point at and say "Look Ma, I
> installed FooNix and it blew the doors off the same box that was running
> BarNix".

Dave tell the man how many people are on the vger driven majordodo lists.

> Like Jordan said, put up an ftp server with some really cool software,
> or setup a WWW site with nudie pictures and leave it up for a month or
> so.  Get back to us with the numbers and the hardware configuration.

Hehe.. Tempting but in the UK I'd have someone running off with the hardware
and a nice little man in a police outfit around in no time.

> > ethernet.  Beat that!                     ////
> > -----------------------------------------////__________  o
> Beat that!  I don't see how *anyone* could read you as an antagonistic
> person.  Heck, and you're not even saying that Linux is superior
> either.  Give me a BREAK!

It says "Beat that" why is that antagonistic - its only antagonistic if you
can't and it upsets you. I've certainly got no problem if you manage to beat
that or if you post

	"2000 parallel ftp connections on one P6" 

or whatever.

Alan