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Date:      Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:36:53 +0100 (CET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
To:        Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>
Cc:        net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Feature: net.inet.tcp.local_slowstart ?
Message-ID:  <200001190836.JAA04159@info.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <200001182206.QAA18388@free.pcs> from Jonathan Lemon at "Jan 18, 2000 04:06:38 pm"

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> >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


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