[94398] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sun Jan 21 13:25:07 2007
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:24:03 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
Cc: Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell@gmail.com>,
Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org>, Dave Israel <davei@otd.com>,
Bora Akyol <bora@broadcom.com>,
North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <92AD6A05-4E68-4AAF-93D4-B1BC70609443@ca.afilias.info>
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Joe Abley wrote:
>
> If anybody has tried this, I'd be interested to hear whether on-net
> clients actually take advantage of the local monster seed, or whether
> they persist in pulling data from elsewhere.
>
The local seed would serve bulk of the data because as soon as a piece
is served from it, the client issues a new request and if the latency
and bandwidth is there, as is the case for ADSL/cable clients, usually
>80% of a file is served "locally".
I don't think additional optimization is done nor needed in the client.
Pete
