[56424] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 923 Mbps across the Ocean ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Majdi S. Abbas)
Sat Mar 8 00:33:26 2003
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 21:30:53 -0800
From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <NDBBJJPLIGJGLBKILFIHOEKIJJAA.ekgermann@cctec.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:57:22PM -0500, Eric Germann wrote:
> http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/07/speed.record/index.html
>
> Comments folks?
"Given enough thrust, pigs fly just fine...demonstrated by
a professional driver on a closed track, please do not try
this at home kids!"
Sure, given a link you don't have to share with production
traffic and a lot of charity, it's possible to get TCP to do a lot
of things. This doesn't make them a good idea (outside of those
`special' environments.)
On the other hand, if you have the need for this kind of
single stream performance, and the pipe to yourself, why not
devise your own protocol with less overhead?
--msa
