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Date:      Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:04:22 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com>
Cc:        j@lumiere.net, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   mbuf clusters and socket send buffers (was Re: 3.1-STABLE dies on 40+ connects)
Message-ID:  <199903261504.KAA23189@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199903260054.QAA22060@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903251452370.1470-100000@leaf.lumiere.net> <199903260054.QAA22060@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>

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<<On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:54:16 -0800 (PST), Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com> said:

> A thought related to this discussion:  does it make sense to allow the
> send buffers to be larger than the peer's advertised window size?
> In other words, why "preposition" those bytes in the kernel before
> the peer has indicated a willingness to accept them?

No, it doesn't.  Just ask Van Jacobson.

Unfortunately, that doesn't get OUR TCP stack rewritten any faster.

-GAWollman

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