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Re: Updated bandwidth info on Weatherx.admin.niu.edu

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  • Subject: Re: Updated bandwidth info on Weatherx.admin.niu.edu
  • Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:38:31 -0700
Gilbert,

Any chance you'll have gigabit connections to your LDM server, and if
so, can you support large MTU (jumbo frames)?  We've been experimenting
with a 9000 byte MTU and we'd like to do end-to-end bandwith testing
with a few geographically distributed sites when possible.

mike

On Dec 14, 10:59am, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> Subject: Updated bandwidth info on Weatherx.admin.niu.edu
> Hello all,
>
> As of this morning, NIU and my office were connected to the Internet2.
> After the last few years of congestion from time to time, that should
> now be gone. The I2 connection will be going up and down for testing over
> the next few weeks, but as of January 1, if all goes well, it should be
> declared operational. Those feeding to and from me from Universities on
> the I2 should now see me through I2 routers instead of the Illinois
> Century Network, unless the line is down for testing.
>
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> Gilbert Sebenste                                                     ********
> (My opinions only!)                                                  ******
> Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University                      ****
> E-mail: address@hidden                                  ***
> web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu                                      **
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>-- End of excerpt from Gilbert Sebenste