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From: lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP latency
Date: 20 Jun 1996 01:26:24 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA
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Rick Jones (raj@cup.hp.com) wrote:
: Alan Cox (iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk) wrote:

: : ----------------------------------------------////
: : Yow! 233 microsecond remote host TCP latency ---- beat that
: : --------------------------------------------////__________  o
: : Alan Cox, Alan.Cox@linux.org               /_____________/ / /\/ /_/ ><

: Is that round-trip, or one-way? 

As the guy that got those numbers: it's round trip.  FreeBSD numbers on
the same hardware (the *same* hardware, it's dual boot linux and bsd)
are around 550.  
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Larry McVoy     lm@sgi.com     http://reality.sgi.com/lm     (415) 933-1804
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