From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 9:42:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D112037B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 09:42:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from stargate.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@stargate.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.154]) by donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id MAA19314; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 12:42:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by stargate.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id MAA06704; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 12:42:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 12:42:33 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@stargate.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: nathan Cc: "John E. Adams" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Packet size In-Reply-To: <3A0AD173.7556935@telecom.ksu.edu> 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 That may be how you do it, but correct me if I'm wrong, it's not a very good idea. I saw a message regarding this and I don't know what the reason was. Something about it's already where it's supposed to be, and changing it can cause instabilities. It is possible the message was refferring to something more specific than TCP. So like I said if somebody knows, correct me. Tim On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, nathan wrote: > i love the mailing list archives. > searching for "tcp window" i found: > > --snip-- > 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. > --snip-- > > eg on my box: > > sysctl -A | grep net > > > 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