Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sun, 3 Aug 2003 20:48:43 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: TOE brain dump |
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On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:17:23AM +0930, Glen Turner wrote: > >Really fast, really long pipes in practice don't exist for 99.9% of all > >Internet users. > > Here every worthwhile fast pipe is a long fast pipe. 90% of > Australia's net traffic goes to the West Coast of the USA, > that's 14,000Km away.
I couldn't tell from your posting if you were arguing for an offload or not. If you are, and you are using these stats as a reason, I'd like to know the absolute numbers, router to router, that we are talking about. I have a feeling that few cheap PC's could handle all the load but I'm willing to be educated.
Even if I'm way off, a pair of routers between Australia and the US is hardly a reason to muck about in the TCP stack. If we were talking about millions of routers, well sure, that makes sense. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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