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Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, grenville armitage <garmitage@swin.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Arg. TCP slow start killing me.
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> Yeah, skimming fail, I didn't realize the machine was not the
> termination point of your connections.  I do have patches back ported
> that would likely get the modular congestion control working on 8.1,
> but neither my suggestions nor the implementation of Cubic will help
> much as mentioned.

Given that my firewall is simply forwarding packets in and out, and is 
not an endpoint, does anyone think tuning up buffers would help here? 
If so, which buffers/sysctl parameters would be worth trying?

Thanks for the help everyone!