Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263045AbTHaW6r (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:58:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263049AbTHaW6q (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:58:46 -0400 Received: from smtp.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.12]:7375 "EHLO smtp.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263045AbTHaW6o (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:58:44 -0400 Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:58:32 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Alan Cox Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Larry McVoy , Pascal Schmidt , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: bandwidth for bkbits.net (good news) Message-ID: <20030831225832.GC16620@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Alan Cox , Andrea Arcangeli , Larry McVoy , Pascal Schmidt , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20030831144505.GS24409@dualathlon.random> <1062343891.10323.12.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030831154450.GV24409@dualathlon.random> <20030831162243.GC18767@work.bitmover.com> <20030831163350.GY24409@dualathlon.random> <20030831164802.GA12752@work.bitmover.com> <20030831170633.GA24409@dualathlon.random> <20030831211855.GB12752@work.bitmover.com> <20030831224938.GC24409@dualathlon.random> <1062370358.12058.8.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1062370358.12058.8.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=0.5, required 7, AWL, DATE_IN_PAST_06_12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1058 Lines: 23 On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 11:52:39PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sul, 2003-08-31 at 23:49, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > I'm not sure why you are arguing this, if you have a fat pipe feeding into > > > > you never tried with linux, how can you claim you know it doesn't work > > in practice? The fact is that you never tried it, while we used it all > > the time. > > How about because any undergraduate can do the mathematical proof its > not possible. Unless he controls the ISP end of the link random bursts > of traffic, pingfloods, anything not respecting requests to slow down > will lose voice traffic. Whoops, if I had read this I wouldn't have sent the other reply. What Alan said is what I've been trying to say. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/