[95473] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: TCP and WAN issue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Tue Mar 27 18:58:50 2007
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From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:58:07 -0700
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mar 27, 2007, at 3:24 PM, <michael.dillon@bt.com> wrote:
> Personally, I would prefer to see more people fixing the
> infrastructure
> rather than accepting it as a limit.
Concur - what I meant is, 'can support when fully optimized'.
;>
> Tweaking apps generally turns out to be heavy-duty stuff with lots of
> release control and testing. Also, the applications programmers
> generally have a poor understanding of network issues. If you can
> separate the applications stuff from the data transfer stuff, and
> tackle
> the network issues first, then you will have an easier time of it.
Concur - app-tweaking should be the penultimate approach (and then,
maybe, look at boxes, if there's an issue which can't be resolved the
other ways; but my guess is that doing the BCPs should yield good
results).
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