From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 22 11:18:47 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 22 11:18:45 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C42EB37B400 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:18:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from sobek.openirc.co.uk ([62.252.8.2]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20001222191829.ZLHR26323.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@sobek.openirc.co.uk>; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 19:18:29 +0000 Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 19:22:28 +0000 (GMT) From: George Reid X-Sender: geeorgy@sobek.openirc.co.uk To: John Skibicki III Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP/IP In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, John Skibicki III wrote: > I'm still a newbie @ BSD! I was wondering, I know in micro$ofts > implementation of TCP/IP they have a thing called a TCP recieving and > sending window. When I got my Cable modem I was getting real bad speeds > because my dial up software changed my recieve window to a smaller size. > Thus changing the recieve window bigger I got the speeds I should have. Was > wondering if BSD has a simmilar setting some where? > if so how can it be adjusted? Thanks John! Of course. There are several window size sysctl(8)s. The two you need are net.inet.tcp.sendspace and net.inet.tcp.recvspace. Use "sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.sendspace=value" to change them. Read sysctl.conf(5) if you want them set at boot time. G "And then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel was just a freight train, comin' your way." George Reid * greid@ukug.uk.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message