Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 18:18:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: lists@security.za.net, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fastforwarding Message-ID: <200006121618.SAA01248@info.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <200006121547.IAA34404@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Jun 12, 2000 08:47:34 am"
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> It kinda sounds to me like the improved speed you are getting is > from reduced latency rather then from higher available bandwidth. right, i got the same feeling. only 550KB on a 10MBit ethernet is kind of slow anyways. cheers luigi > You may be able to get the same result by increasing the TCP window > size on source and destination. The default is only 16K (on FreeBSD > boxes), 8K in Win95/98, and 16K on Win2K. If I remember right. > > Also, if either if your ethernets are on HUBs changing those out for > switches should result in a major improvement in performance. > > -Matt > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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