From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 15 15:07:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA10689 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:07:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nefertiti.lightningweb.com (nefertiti.lightningweb.com [198.68.191.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA10683 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:07:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keith@lightningweb.com) Received: from localhost (keith@localhost) by nefertiti.lightningweb.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA27323; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:06:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:06:52 -0800 (PST) From: Keith Woodman To: Steve Friedrich cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Boot disk In-Reply-To: <199812152255.RAA29211@laker.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well. Looks like my stats are getting substantialy better. Just selected all the packages and began the d-load. It's at about 35KB Not bad. I can't imagine doing this with a modem. I must say, I was set back with some of the available packages. I mean, FreeBSD has to be the only OS in the world that offers sniffit as an install package. :-) . I also saw that staroffice was in there as well. WOW. And after I spent a couple hundred on Applixware. :-( trafshow, bing and tcplist look promising as well. Can't wait to play now. Keith ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Keith Woodman Technical Coordinator Keith@lightningweb.com Lightningweb LLC pid 7962 (sniffit), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Steve Friedrich wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:56:17 -0800 (PST), Keith Woodman wrote: > > >Well. It's installing well now over the net at a scnat 25k. Looks like > >i'll be here for a bit.. > > ftp.freebsd.org is usually servicing about 3500 users at a time. I > sometimes get refused connections because it's at it's limit. It's a > *very* impressive system. Checkout the story, half-way down the page > on http://www.freebsdmall.com/ > Especially follow the link to it's description, which is at > http://www.freebsdmall.com/newsletter1/busiest_ftp_server.phtml > > I think ftp servers can be *tuned* to the size of the pipe. I don't > know if anyone has attempted to tune this one. I believe, anyone > correct me if I'm wrong, that some ftp servers simply assume that any > connection is probably a 33K (or thereabouts) modem, and they just > service all connections at the same priority. I believe, see > disclaimer, that it's possible for an ftp server to determine whether > the pipe is emptying as fast as it gets filled, indicating that it's a > *not* a desktop modem, and they prioritize it slightly higher than > connections that appear to be *slow*, so as to get that connection > satisfied and gone. I believe that the ftp servers that do this base it > on the statistics they get back from downstream... > > Am I all wet?? > > > Steve Friedrich > Viva la FreeBSD!! > Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message