On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 02:27:14PM +0000, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:17:38AM -0400, Joe Abley wrote:
> >
> > On 21-Apr-2009, at 21:50, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> >
> > >On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:24:38PM -0400, Ricky Beam wrote:
> > >>
> > >
> > >>FTP? Who uses FTP these days? Certainly not consumers. Even Cisco
> > >>pushes almost everything via a webserver. (they still have ftp
> > >>servers,
> > >>they just don't put much on them these days.)
> > >
> > > well, pretty much anyone who has large datasets to move around.
> > > that default 64k buffer in the openssl libs pretty much sucks
> > > rocks for large data flows.
> >
> > So you're saying FTP with no SSL is better than HTTP with no SSL?
> >
> >
> > Joe
> >
>
> (see me LEAPING to conclusions....)
>
> yes. (although I was actually thinking http w/ SSL vs FTP w/o SSL)
> a really good review of the options was presented at the DoE/JT meeting
> at UNL last summer. Basically, tuned FTP w/ large window support is
> still king for pushing large datasets around.
>
>
> --bill
whiner Joe... here's the link:
http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/jt2008jul/20080720-tierney.pdf
--bill
