[40682] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wanted: wireless magic tricks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher A. Woodfield)
Thu Aug 16 13:45:42 2001
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:39:51 -0400
To: Christian Kuhtz <ck@arch.bellsouth.net>
Cc: "Young, Jason" <Jason.Young@anheuser-busch.com>,
"'Cerqua, Toby'" <toby@platinumsystems.net>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
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From: "Christopher A. Woodfield" <rekoil@semihuman.com>
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What you'll need to correct that is a way to increase the TCP window size
of the hosts, thus reducing the time spent waiting for ACKs to be
returned.
-C
> Catch is, the bw x delay product will kill you on these links if you run TCP
> sessions and you won't get anywhere near line rate. There's a company in
> Boulder which used to make a widget for high speed data transfer across sat
> link exactly for this purpose. Can't remember the name, should be able to
> find them easily though if they're still in business as it has been a few years
> since I last touched this stuff...
>
> --
> Christian Kuhtz <ck@arch.bellsouth.net> -wk, <ck@gnu.org> -hm
> Sr. Architect, Engineering & Architecture, BellSouth.net, Atlanta, GA, U.S.
> "I speak for myself only."
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