gabriel rosenkoetter <gr_at_eclipsed.net> wrote:
>
> Well, seeing as it significantly slows down my 128 up/384 down ADSL
> connection at least wrt latency (my ssh'ing to machines elsewhere),
> I'm not convinced it has *no* effect on your ISDN.
>
Ok, I was curious and sniffed the SYN packets to my client (LimeWire)
for about an hour (not very representative, I know). The average was
about 9 packets per minute. Assuming 48 byte per SYN packet and
20 byte for each RST makes 10.2 byte/sec.
Not too much IMO.
Though I guess you'll get more packets on a faster connection because
the clients will try them first before bothering with the slow modem
users.
> Does the fact that the client in question is actually "gnut" on a
> RedHat 7.1 machine make any difference?
>
Nope, shouldn't matter AFAIK.
Your TTL system makes sense.
But as long as the developers rely on the old protocol to maintain
backwards compatibility there isn't much room for changes.
-- Markus Kern <markus-kern_at_gmx.net>
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Received on Jul 05 2001
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