RE: Best utilizing fat long pipes and large file transfer

[Skywing <Skywing () valhallalegends com>]

It's 10 half-open (SYN_SENT) outbound TCP connections as I recall.

- S

-----Original Message-----
From: goemon () anime net <goemon () anime net>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 12:26
To: Glen Turner <gdt () gdt id au>
Cc: nanog () merit edu <nanog () merit edu>
Subject: Re: Best utilizing fat long pipes and large file transfer

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Glen Turner wrote:
> Then there's the deliberate nobbling of the TCP implementation,
> such as the restriction to ten of connections to Windows Xp SP3.
> Apparently you're meant to buy Windows Server if you are running
> P2P applications :-)

are you quite sure it is *10 tcp connections*?
have you tested this?

-Dan