latency

It's still not clear when the next release of JACK (1.9.23) is coming, but it will ship with a completely rewritten FreeBSD audio (OSS API) backend. As a preview and call for testing, a build option was added to the audio/jack port to try out the new backend. Any feedback on this is appreciated...

I had firefox running. Then in a terminal I added the rule: ipfw add 1001 drop tcp from me to any dst-port 80 setup out via rl0 uid ron Firefox could still visit *any* http site. I exited firefox. I restarted firefox Now firefox could only visit https sites, as I had expected earlier. Is...

We're trying to establish and maintain some sort of tunnel from a ship at sea over a high latency satellite link. Several satellite links are in use simultaneously. Bandwidth and latency vary considerably depending on the vendor in use and the position of the ship (this is an R/V; so the ship is...