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Re: TCP and WAN issue
From: Robert Boyle <robert () tellurian com>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:04:20 -0400
At 04:26 PM 3/27/2007, Philip Lavine wrote:
I have an east coast and west coast data center connected with a DS3. I am running into issues with streaming data via TCP and was wondering besides hardware acceleration, is there any options at increasing throughput and maximizing the bandwidth? How can I overcome the TCP stack limitations inherent in Windows (registry tweaks seem to not functions too well)?
You will have problems obtaining anything more than 5-7Mbit/s based on 1500 byte Ethernet packets and a RTT latency of 70-90ms. You can increase your window size or use Jumbo Ethernet frames. Almost all GigE gear supports jumbo frames. I'm not sure of your application, but without OS tweaks, each stream is limited to 5-7Mbit/s. You can open multiple streams between the same two hosts or you can use multiple hosts to transfer your data. You can utilize the entire DS3, but not without OS TCP stack tweaks or a move to jumbo frames. You can also use UDP or another connectionless packet method to move the data between sites. Good luck.
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Current thread:
- TCP and WAN issue Philip Lavine (Mar 27)
- Re: TCP and WAN issue Joe Abley (Mar 27)
- Re: TCP and WAN issue Joe Abley (Mar 27)
- Re: TCP and WAN issue Roland Dobbins (Mar 27)
- Re: TCP and WAN issue Robert Boyle (Mar 27)
- Re: TCP and WAN issue JAKO Andras (Mar 27)
- RE: TCP and WAN issue michael.dillon (Mar 27)
- [no subject] Jim Shankland (Mar 27)
- RE: Jumbo frames michael.dillon (Mar 27)
- RE: Jumbo frames Jim Shankland (Mar 27)
- Re: Jumbo frames Andy Davidson (Mar 29)
- RE: Jumbo frames michael.dillon (Mar 29)
- Re: Jumbo frames Stephen Sprunk (Mar 30)
- [no subject] Jim Shankland (Mar 27)
- RE: Jumbo frames Hank Nussbacher (Mar 27)
- Re: TCP and WAN issue Joe Abley (Mar 27)
- Re: Perry Lorier (Mar 27)