issues when downloading InCommon-metadata.xml

Tom Scavo trscavo at gmail.com
Wed Mar 23 15:02:53 EDT 2016


On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Sam Ottenhoff <ottenhoff at longsight.com> wrote:
>> Oh, that's a nice tip for SP clients experiencing network issues. Can
>> you tell me where that is documented in the wiki?
>
> I ran into this issue this week after observing very slow load times for
> Incommon metadata from one of our three data center locations. I found the
> option for timeout documented here:
>
>
> https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPTransportOption
>
> Despite having a very good route from Chicago to Ann Arbor, I can't get past
> about 250kbps while downloading Incommon metadata. From Northern Virginia, I
> see speeds of 30+ Mbps. The route from Chicago is via Voxel then Transitrail
> -> I2 -> Michnet.

This is helpful info, Sam. I will share this Internet2 network engineers.

Tom


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