From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 8:20: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gateway.telecom.ksu.edu (gateway-1.telecom.ksu.edu [129.130.63.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F98C37B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 08:19:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from sioux.telecom.ksu.edu(129.130.60.32) by pawnee.telecom.ksu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma024344; Thu, 9 Nov 00 10:19:51 -0600 Message-ID: <3A0ACE84.14E2FD3E@telecom.ksu.edu> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 10:19:16 -0600 From: nathan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John E. Adams" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Packet size References: <7C33AF2A208FD411B53100D0B789776507F5F4@ntbartow.pcs.polksheriff.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG from what i've found, and without knowing which specific regedit you ran, its most likely a modification of the RWIN. --snip-- Windows 98 has some improvements in the TCP/IP, including Large Window support ( the 'DefaultRcvWindow' has a maximum value of 2**30 rather than 64K), support for Selective Acknowledgments (SACK) and support for Fast Retransmission and Fast Recovery. --snip-- However, I don't know where this is managed in fbsd. thought maybe some clarification might help find some folks more knowledgeable. so basically, maybe the question should be more like: how do you tweak TCP under freebsd? hth nathan "John E. Adams" wrote: > I recently had cable modem service installed at home. On my win98 machine a > ran a script to change the packet size. The effect was to increase my > bandwidth. > The change was done in the registry. Is there a place where I can change the > packet size in FreeBSD? > > 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