Statux wrote:
>
> > Once a TCP/IP connection has been established (say via accept and connect),
> > the resulting connection is symetric right?
>
> Not always. There is a lot of asymmetric hardware out there... namely 56K
> modems and ADSL, etc.
>
> 56K modems, for instance, upload at about 33.6K and download at 53K
> (based on FCC regulations in the USA, that 53K number might be different
> in other countries).
>
> I think that I'm right with that answer :) Anyone else?
Well, my hardware is symmetric, and I've tried moving the accept'er from
one side to the other..and the slow transmit side follows the guy that's
accepting.
On a similar topic: I am sending large bunches of TCP/IP traffic,
say 24kbytes at a time. However, on the receive, I never read more
than 14k or so, even though the specified max to read is 40kB or so.
(It's non-blocking reads...) Is that 14k a tunable paramter?
UDP traffic doesn't suffer from that problem of course, because you
receive the entire PDU at once.....
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