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Date:      Thu, 9 Nov 2000 11:16:57 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        nathan <beemern@telecom.ksu.edu>
Cc:        "John E. Adams" <adamsj@polksheriff.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Packet size
Message-ID:  <20001109111657.R5112@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <3A0ACE84.14E2FD3E@telecom.ksu.edu>; from beemern@telecom.ksu.edu on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 10:19:16AM -0600
References:  <7C33AF2A208FD411B53100D0B789776507F5F4@ntbartow.pcs.polksheriff.org> <3A0ACE84.14E2FD3E@telecom.ksu.edu>

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* nathan <beemern@telecom.ksu.edu> [001109 08:20] wrote:
> from what i've found, and without knowing which specific regedit you ran, its most
> likely a modification of
> the RWIN.
> 
> --snip--
> Windows 98 has some improvements in the TCP/IP, including Large Window support ( the
>                      'DefaultRcvWindow' has a maximum value of 2**30 rather than 64K),
> support for Selective
>                      Acknowledgments (SACK) and support for Fast Retransmission and
> Fast Recovery.
> --snip--
> 
> However, I don't know where this is managed in fbsd.  thought maybe some clarification
> might help find some folks more knowledgeable.
> so basically, maybe the question should be more like:
> 
> how do you tweak TCP under freebsd?

FreeBSD doesn't support Selective ACK right now, but large windows and
some other tweaks are supported, I think you want to mess with either
the net.inet.tcp.rfc1323 or net.inet.tcp.rfc1644 to tweak those types
of options.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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