From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 18 4:58: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70BEF37B401 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 04:58:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from michelob.wixb.com (michelob.wixb.com [67.36.82.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB9A543ED4 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 04:58:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@xpec.com) Received: from labatts.xpec.com (labatts.wixb.com [10.135.144.4]) by michelob.wixb.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBICw5S3000145 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 06:58:05 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20021218065424.00b1c6b0@molson.wixb.com> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 06:58:05 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "J.D. Bronson" Subject: net.inet.tcp send/recv question Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I noticed that the recent version of Freebsd (4.7) has changed this: net.inet.tcp.sendspace: 32768 net.inet.tcp.recvspace: 57344 these values I think used to be 65536 While I think I read that this was due to better compatibility with firewalls and IPFILTER...if one does not have issues (or never had them) should these values be brought back up to 65536 ? I am looking for maximum throughput and performance, but wanted to ask about this PRIOR to making any changes... anything WRONG with using the higher values? thanks in advance :) Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message