[69269] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RFC2549 revisited
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Crist Clark)
Thu Apr 1 12:25:49 2004
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 09:24:33 -0800
From: Crist Clark <crist.clark@globalstar.com>
In-reply-to: <200404011606.i31G6C86013939@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> http://www.notes.co.il/benbasat/5240.asp
>
> Probably significant jitter on the RTTs though....
My personal favorite quote along these lines has always been,
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of
quarter-inch tapes."
Even thought the oft repeated story behind it may not be totally true,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A678576
And of course there are other theories on the origins,
http://www.bpfh.net/sysadmin/never-underestimate-bandwidth.html
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Crist J. Clark crist.clark@globalstar.com
Globalstar Communications (408) 933-4387
