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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!newsgate.duke.edu!newshost.convex.com!news.onramp.net!zdc!zdc-e!szdc-e!news From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP latency Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 19:28:42 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 27 Message-ID: <31F41CBA.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.eng.sun.com> <4s8cuq$ljd@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> <31E7C0DD.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4s8tcn$jsh@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E80ACA.167EB0E7@dyson.iquest.net> <4sadde$qsv@linux.cs.helsinki.fi> <31E9E3A7.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4sefde$f0l@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31EBB017.167EB0E7@dyson.iquest.net> <31EFEFE3.5282@cohprog.com> <4sp67q$1ft@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4sun9q$25u@stdismas.bogon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5a (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:46104 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4141 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:24260 John Henders wrote: > > In <4sp67q$1ft@uriah.heep.sax.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: > > >Yann Stettler <stettler@cohprog.com> wrote: > > >> PS : I missed the begining of the thread, can someone tell me > >> how all this will affect the networking capacity of my 386 > >> computer connected to the internet via a 9600bps modem ? > > >The beginning of the thread was a signature telling something like: > >``Foozolix beating Barzumix today: TCP latency is 2.3 ns vs. 4.5 ns'' > > Well, not really. Alan's signature in fact read. > > > At this point, Steinar Haug added the freebsd group to the newsgroups line > <4qc60n$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. > It isn't totally meaningless, but certainly doesn't tell the whole story. It in itself shows only a very small part of the picture. John