From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 12 10:56:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ussenterprise.ufp.org (ussenterprise.ufp.org [208.185.30.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2217F37B405 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:56:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bicknell@ussenterprise.ufp.org) Received: (from bicknell@localhost) by ussenterprise.ufp.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f6CHuTq49102 for hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 13:56:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bicknell) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 13:56:29 -0400 From: Leo Bicknell To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network performance tuning. Message-ID: <20010712135629.A49042@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Mail-Followup-To: Leo Bicknell , hackers@freebsd.org References: <15.16ffaf54.287f3d4d@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15.16ffaf54.287f3d4d@aol.com>; from Bsdguru@aol.com on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 01:50:05PM -0400 Organization: United Federation of Planets Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 01:50:05PM -0400, Bsdguru@aol.com wrote: > The window is there for flow control and data integrity. You seek to > undermine those concepts, which doesnt seem like a good idea for an "out of > the box" operating system Not at all. Nothing I've suggested removes the window, or changes the flow control properties in any way at all. What I've suggested is that we remove an outside, artifical limiting force, so those mechanisms can actually do what is intended. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440 Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message