From owner-freebsd-net Wed Jan 19 0:36:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from info.iet.unipi.it (info.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4087D15061 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 00:36:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@info.iet.unipi.it) Received: (from luigi@localhost) by info.iet.unipi.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA04159; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:36:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from luigi) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200001190836.JAA04159@info.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Feature: net.inet.tcp.local_slowstart ? In-Reply-To: <200001182206.QAA18388@free.pcs> from Jonathan Lemon at "Jan 18, 2000 04:06:38 pm" To: Jonathan Lemon Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:36:53 +0100 (CET) Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >ss_fltsz_local is set to TCP_MAXWIN (65535) and the assignment > >in tcp_input.c is then something like > > > > p->snd_cwnd = mss * ss_fltsz_local > > > >dimensionally, this looks to me like bytes^2 ... > > Flightsize is in terms of 'packets', while cwnd is in bytes, but is > usually a multiple of the packet size. The above code just tries to > set the cwnd to be essentially unbounded, which is what it was before, > I believe. yes it was something like 1MB or possibly larger. So i guess you agree with me that there are better ways to say "unbounded". cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message