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From: jhenders@bogon.com (John Henders)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP latency
Date: 21 Jul 1996 18:59:22 -0700
Organization: Bogon Research
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In <4sp67q$1ft@uriah.heep.sax.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>Yann Stettler <stettler@cohprog.com> wrote:
>> PS : I missed the begining of the thread, can someone tell me
>> how all this will affect the networking capacity of my 386
>> computer connected to the internet via a 9600bps modem ?
>The beginning of the thread was a signature telling something like:
>``Foozolix beating Barzumix today: TCP latency is 2.3 ns vs. 4.5 ns''
Well, not really. Alan's signature in fact read.
> ----------------------------------------------////
> Yow! 233 microsecond remote host TCP latency ---- beat that
> --------------------------------------------////__________ o
> Alan Cox, Alan.Cox@linux.org /_____________/ / /\/ /_/ ><
Notice the lack of mention of any other operating system.
Out of curiosity, I did a little research at DejaNews. This thread
started in gnu.misc.discuss, <4p4vfv$rev@top.mitre.org> when someone
asked what benchmark the numbers came from. This evolved into a
discussion of relative numbers with a few other OS's. The thread sptlit
into a discussion of a routing problem with netbsd
<4pa83i$2km@solutions.solon.com> and the Solaris bug
<4pf7f9$bsf@white.twinsun.com>,and that's when the netbsd group and the
linux networking group was added to the newsgroup line. Up until this
point, the thread was flame free.
At this point, Steinar Haug added the freebsd group to the newsgroups line
<4qc60n$d8m@verdi.nethelp.no>, and John Dyson followed up,
commenting that the benchmark was meaningless
<31D2F0C6.167EB0E7@inuxs.att.com> and the rest is history.
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