[comp.protocols.tcp-ip] Arpanet congestion?

cpw%sneezy@LANL.GOV (C. Philip Wood) (07/21/88)

This is for the "IthoughtIhadSeenEverything" department.

There is a serial link of MIT which provides internet access for host
807f1964 to the Internet.  In order to ftp files from this host to a
host off the MILNET, a user using SunOS 4.0 must start a periodic ICMP
ECHO to 807f1964 in parallel with the ftp 'get'. 

The question I have is, "What is the peer hardware/software configuration of
the serial link?"   I want to make sure that the Laboratory does not procure
same.

Phil Wood  cpw@lanl.gov