[95468] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: TCP and WAN issue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (michael.dillon@bt.com)
Tue Mar 27 18:11:24 2007
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:11:08 +0100
In-Reply-To: <379373.72674.qm@web30813.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
From: <michael.dillon@bt.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> I have an east coast and west coast data center connected=20
> with a DS3. I am running into issues with streaming data via=20
> TCP and was wondering besides hardware acceleration, is there=20
> any options at increasing throughput and maximizing the=20
> bandwidth?
Use GigE cards on the servers with a jumbo MTU and only buy IP network
access from a service provider who supports jumbo MTUs end-to-end
through their network.
> How can I overcome the TCP stack limitations=20
> inherent in Windows (registry tweaks seem to not functions too well)?
Install a pair of Linux servers and use them to send/receive the data
over the WAN.
Also, do some googling for Internet Speed Record and read pages like
this one:
http://www.internet2.edu/lsr/history.html
And read up on scaling MTI size with bandwidth here:
http://www.psc.edu/~mathis/MTU/arguments.html
--Michael Dillon
