From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 5 20:04:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA12910 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 20:04:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (root@orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA12902 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 20:04:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (gpalmer@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA17755; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 23:04:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: orion.webspan.net: Host gpalmer@localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Tony Kimball cc: questions@freebsd.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: tcp tuning In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Aug 1996 17:05:06 CDT." <199608052205.RAA25880@compound.Think.COM> Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1996 23:04:00 -0400 Message-ID: <17750.839300640@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Tony Kimball wrote in message ID <199608052205.RAA25880@compound.Think.COM>: > A question for the IP stack experts: I use the Internet quite a lot > between Chicago and Boston, on the MCI backbone. MCI drops 25-50% of > the packets at Willow Springs, and has done for weeks now. This leads > to absolutely terrible telnet latencies -- unusable, even. Is there a > way to tune the TCP timing parameters to provide optimal latency under > lossy conditions, perhaps at the expense of bandwidth. Retrying more > rapidly, for example, would be a help. What else would be helpful? Asking MCI what they plan to do to address the packet loss you are suffering? :-) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info