[1270] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Asymmetric TCP/PPP performance (very poor receiving TCP)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Fri Oct 27 23:16:37 1995
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: rlk@tiac.net (Robert L Krawitz)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 18:39:28 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199510251402.KAA06669@sunspot.tiac.net> from "Robert L Krawitz" at Oct 25, 95 10:02:29 am
> ran at 2.6! I didn't have tcpdump running at the time. Given that
> our site has a 56 Kb connection to the internet, it's interesting that
> I got slightly better performance getting it over the internet than
> getting it from a much more local site. It's also interesting that
> the performance degradation with incompressible data is much less than
> with fully compressible data. Wonder what that means...
>
Sometimes that means you may need to turn on your flow control.
Alan
