RE: RE: High Speed Firewalls

["David Newman" <dnewman () networktest com>]

> That has mostly to do with things like round-trip delays for handshakes,
> and TCP slow start.  If you take a sample out of the middle of such a
> connection, for a much longer file, it will look better.
>
> I think at some point, your constraining factor might get to be
> latency.  The window size can only get to be 64K, right?
>
>                               Ryan

Er, sorry to have to go through this again. This has nothing to do with
latency (delay) or window size. On the wire, user data (like the contents of
a file) is wrapped in packets. Packets have headers. Headers add overhead.
Ergo, it's not possible to put 100 Mbits of *user data* on the wire in one
second. Ergo, "wire-speed throughput" from an application perspective is a
myth.

Please reread the earlier thread -- this has been all been hashed over,
several times.

dn