Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 20:48:43 -0700
From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: Glen Turner <glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: TOE brain dump
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On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:17:23AM +0930, Glen Turner wrote:
> >Really fast, really long pipes in practice don't exist for 99.9% of all 
> >Internet users.
> 
> Here every worthwhile fast pipe is a long fast pipe.  90% of
> Australia's net traffic goes to the West Coast of the USA,
> that's 14,000Km away.

I couldn't tell from your posting if you were arguing for an offload or not.
If you are, and you are using these stats as a reason, I'd like to know 
the absolute numbers, router to router, that we are talking about.  I have
a feeling that few cheap PC's could handle all the load but I'm willing 
to be educated.

Even if I'm way off, a pair of routers between Australia and the US is 
hardly a reason to muck about in the TCP stack.  If we were talking 
about millions of routers, well sure, that makes sense.
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Larry McVoy              lm at bitmover.com          http://www.bitmover.com/lm
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