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Re: Internet speed report...


From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 16:37:41 +0200 (CEST)


On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Simon Leinen wrote:

Rather than over-dimensioning the backbone for two or three users (the
"Petabyte crowd"), I'd prefer making them happy with a special TCP.

Tune your max window size so it won't be able to use more than say 60% of 
the total bandwidth, that way (if the packets are paced evenly) you won't 
ever overload the 10GE link with 30% background "noise".

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike () swm pp se


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