On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote:

> I suspect that they ignored the control issues. :-) If they used
FTP/TCP/IP,
> they probably started measuring after the control and data 3-way handshakes
> and set the TCP window as huge as possible??
>
> They probably rolled their own transfer mechanism, I would guess, but maybe
> not. TCP could be pretty good for this....

Ok, based on what I've heard from NANOG they used a portion of the I2 and
created a PVC across it for only this single test.  They then
probably increased the TCP Window size to make this work.  I'm not saying
this is all factual, I'm just recalling what I've read there.

Andrew
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