Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/01/15/13:39:37
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 20:35, Brian Dessent wrote:
> > > Ooh, ooh! Somebody port KDE's Kioslave feature to Cygwin.
> > > Then I'll
> > > finally be able to mount as a drive letter that ISO9660 image on my
> > > remote Appletalk share that's tunneled through ssh through a http
> > > proxy on my IP-over-carrier pigeon link.
> > >
> > > Brian
> > >
> > With carrier pigeon 1.0, the beak is so small you have to
> > dis-assemble/re-assemble the IP packets.
>
> Unfortunately, PMTU discovery doesn't work over avian carrier. Sending
> out bigger and bigger packets until you find the size that makes the carrier
> choke was banned by the humane society.... But it's a good way to make
> pate....
Have you considered IP-over-cheetah? It's lightning speed provides much
better interactive responsiveness, with minimal packet loss (unless it's
real hungry). Simply tie the packet around it's neck (provided it
doesn't byte your packet assembler), point it towards the gazelle enabled
backbone traffic feeder and off it's goes! :)
> cheers,
> DaveK
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