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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Window updates 
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> So the apps read buffer is possibly 32 times 2^8 = 8KB ? (32 being the
> increment in each of those window updates.)

I don't have the source code to hand, but that certainly sounds
plausable.  It is a tcp traffic generation tool, so 8K sounds like
the sort of size it is likely to read in.

	David.