/* HINT: Search archives @ http://www.indyramp.com/masq/ before posting! */ My LAN is behind a linux firewall, which is Cable Modem'd to the world. Clients are Windows.....although my personal machine has linux on it as well. I noticed some intersting things going on and I was wondering if someone might have an explanation. FTP From a reasonably fast server (ftp.cdrom.com) of an 8M file..... ---------------------------------- ...to the firewall machine: 64.5s (124.4k) ...to a windows client behind the firewall: 120.1s (66.8k) ...to a linux client (same machine as the windows client): 67.5s (er, a little less than 124k) The windows machine takes twice as long. But before anyone tells me the answer, here is another test I did: ...4 files between 7-10M (totaling 31M) were downloaded from the same ftp server simultaneously under windows and they all arrived in an average of 127s. Doing the math reveals about 260k download rate. ----------------------------------- Why ? Are packets forced to (a) certain sizes under windows? What's going on that causes what seems to be a voluntary scaling/regulating of the data rate? Why doesn't linux do this? Any help would be appreciated. It's a peculiar phenomenon that I'm sure has a reasonable answer. Thanks in advance to anyone with a clue. _______________________________________________ Masq maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Admin requests can be handled at http://www.indyramp.com/masq-list/ or email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE read the HOWTO and search the archives before posting. You can start your search at http://www.indyramp.com/masq/
