Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:17:38AM -0400, Joe Abley wrote:
> On 21-Apr-2009, at 21:50, bmanning () vacation karoshi com wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:24:38PM -0400, Ricky Beam wrote:
> > >
> >
> > > FTP?  Who uses FTP these days?  Certainly not consumers.  Even Cisco
> > > pushes almost everything via a webserver. (they still have ftp  
> > > servers,
> > > they just don't put much on them these days.)
> >
> >     well, pretty much anyone who has large datasets to move around.
> >     that default 64k buffer in the openssl libs pretty much sucks
> >     rocks for large data flows.
>
> So you're saying FTP with no SSL is better than HTTP with no SSL?
>
>
> Joe

        (see me LEAPING to conclusions....)

        yes.  (although I was actually thinking  http w/ SSL vs FTP w/o SSL)
        a really good review of the options was presented at the DoE/JT meeting
        at UNL last summer.  Basically, tuned FTP w/ large window support is
        still king for pushing large datasets around.


--bill