NetBSD Sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record

Daniel de Kok writes "Researchers of the Swedish University Network (SUNET) have beaten the Internet2 Land Speed Record using two Dell 2650 machines with single 2GHz CPUs running NetBSD 2.0 Beta. SUNET has transferred around 840 GigaBytes of data in less than 30 minutes, using a single IPv4 TCP stream, between a host at the Luleå University of Technology and a host connected to a Sprint PoP in San Jose, CA, USA. The achieved speed was 69.073 Petabit-meters/second. According to the research team, NetBSD was chosen 'due to the scalability of the TCP code.'"

"More information about this record including the NetBSD configuration can be found at: http://proj.sunet.se/LSR2/
The website of the Internet2 Land Speed Record (I2-LSR) competition is located at: http://lsr.internet2.edu/"

Comments

Correct me if I'm wrong...

[AKAImBatman]

...but don't the three main BSD projects use pretty much the same TCP/IP stack?

Re:Correct me if I'm wrong...

[drsmithy]

AFAIK, everything modern uses the BSD stack. Windows uses the BSD stack for crying out loud (a little known fact).

Actually, it appears to be a well known falsehood...

Re:Distances, people!!!

[endx7]

Actually, they data transfered across Sweden, part of Europe and then the United States which (according to them) took up 10,157 miles total.

Re:Distances, people!!!

[NNKK]

Not only did you not RTFA, you didn't read the *slashdot* article:

"between a host at the Luleå University of Technology and a host connected to a Sprint PoP in San Jose, CA, USA."

This wasn't across Sweden, it was across the Atlantic Ocean and North America.

"The Internet? Is that thing still around?

[AtariAmarok]

"I2 isn't going to replace the Internet some day, it's more of an acedemic playground not a construction project"

I remember the same thing being said about the actual Internet back in the mid-late 1980s. Academic playground, won't amount to much.