Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests

[Jo Rhett <jrhett () netconsonance com>]

On Apr 21, 2009, at 6:50 PM, bmanning () vacation karoshi com wrote:
> > FTP?  Who uses FTP these days?  Certainly not consumers.  Even Cisco

>         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.


Large data sets?  So you are saying that 512-byte packets with no  
windowing work better?  Bill, have you measured this?

Time to download a 100mb file over HTTP and a 100mb interface: 20  
seconds.
Time to download a 100mb file over FTP and a 100mb interface: ~7  
minutes.

And yes, that was FreeBSD with the old version openssl library that  
shipped with 6.3.

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