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Subject: Re: Arg. TCP slow start killing me.
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Thanks Jason!

> Is it possible to upgrade to 8.2-STABLE?  Cubic has shown some really
> great improvement in my latent paths, a steady 10% overall increase in
> same cases.

Alas no, my OS is a pre-baked install for pfSense, and if I tried to 
upgrade it, it would likely break some of the functionality of how 
pfSense is built.  I've considered patching in some kernel mods to add 
cubic and H-TCP to the kernel, but even that makes me nervous.