Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:56:55 -0700 From: Steve Francis <steve@expertcity.com> To: Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU> Cc: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net>, Kirill Ponomarew <ponomarew@oberon.net>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: delayed ACK Message-ID: <3DAC9D37.7060701@expertcity.com> References: <3DAC8206.1080604@isi.edu>
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Lars Eggert wrote: >Paul Herman wrote: > > >>Not true. Although some bugs have been fixed in 4.3, FreeBSD's >>delayed ACKs will still degrade your performance dramatically in >>some cases. >> >> > >I'm sorry, but such statements without a packet trace that exhibits the >problem are just not useful. > >Lars > > He's probably referring to poorly behaved windows clients, on certain applications, if you leave net.inet.tcp.slowstart_flightsize at default. Incidentally, why are not the defaults on net.inet.tcp.slowstart_flightsize higher? RFC2414 seems to indicate it should be higher. Solaris in version 8 and later default to 4 for this value. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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