From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 1 23:53:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tetron02.tetronsoftware.com (ftp.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2725914A0B for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 23:53:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zeus@tetronsoftware.com) Received: from tetron02.tetronsoftware.com (zeus@tetron02.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.106]) by tetron02.tetronsoftware.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA44217; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 01:55:59 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from zeus@tetronsoftware.com) Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 01:55:59 -0600 (CST) From: Gene Harris To: nat Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: change the TCP Receive Window setting (in order to increase speed of cable modem) In-Reply-To: <000d01bf54f3$111f18e0$0b00a8c0@orng1.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm not sure what MS is calling the tcp receive window. In freebsd, you can set many system parameters using sysctl. If I remember correctly, you want to set the parameter net.inet.tcp.receivespace. You can get a complete list of settings with command sysctl -A. You might also try scanning "man tcp" for any pertinent information. I hope this helps. Gene On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, nat wrote: > I previously had my cable modem hooked up to a > windows machine until i realized that FreeBSD could > be a router. > For windows they had a registry setting in: > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\MSTCP > and when you changed the TCP Recieve Window > setting to 32767 it supposedly made a difference in > speed w/your cable modem. This made a difference > in my windows machine, so i would like to do the same > in my FreeBSD machine. > Can you help me with this? > Im running FreeBSD 3.2-Release w/2 nics (de0, and de1) > > I assume it is a setting in /etc/rc.conf. > > Please help, > > nat > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message