One note on the WAN accelerators... The WANscaler and Riverbed products also do protocol "ack spoofing" for CIFS and (I think) NFS. The appliance actually acks the client's transaction immediately, before the server even gets the packet. This tries to turn the stop/start, request/ack protocol into more of a streaming situation.
I'm only mentioning it because I didn't know until I asked one of our storage guys a few minutes ago. I thought that they only did block matching/compression. The protocol spoofing is pretty cool, but something that you need to be aware of when debugging. I didn't know they were emulating a Telebit Trailblazer modem and "UUCP g" ack spoofing from the 80's :-) --tep _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
