[OpenAFS] performance stats

[Christopher D. Clausen]

David Bear <David.Bear@asu.edu> wrote:
> We are finding that cifs performance is very BAD over a WAN and I'm
> guessing that the checkpoint vpn software the we MUST run is a
> contributing factor. We can't trust cifs over the wider internet
> without vpn. We can trust afs. But there are still some microsoft
> diehards that just don't think anything else could work.

Some VPNs actually compress sent data as well as encrypt, so your 
performance might actually get worse without the VPN.

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