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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 17:52:26 -0800
From: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: RFC 3390: Increasing TCP's Initial Window
In-reply-to: "Your message of Fri, 01 Nov 2002 17:28:44 PST."
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  > Time to default net.inet.tcp.slowstart_flightsize to 4?

A straight initial window of 4 is too big.  I have patches lying around
that varies the initial window size from 2 to 4 depending on the MSS,
as specified in the RFC.

							Jeffrey


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