Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 22:16:48 -0400 From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> To: Carl Mascott <cmascott@att.net> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP window size issues Message-ID: <20031018021648.GA26182@pit.databus.com> In-Reply-To: <200310180016.h9I0GWQF000981@callisto.local> References: <3F9067AD.A6551D07@pipeline.ch> <200310180016.h9I0GWQF000981@callisto.local>
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 08:16:32PM -0400, Carl Mascott wrote: > > NOTE: AFAIK, 4.4BSD through FreeBSD 4.6-R seem to have done > alright without the PR 11966 patch, but if someone knows > different, please speak up. I'm not really surprised. I would have thought that a well-behaved sender would be using congestion avoidance and limiting its transmit window so that packet drops should be rare, even with an oversize advertised window. What's surprising is that this sort of tweak is ever required, other than as a minor optimization. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.
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