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Date:      Sat, 21 Aug 2004 13:55:31 +0100
From:      "R. W." <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Equitable Sharing between TCP Sockets
Message-ID:  <200408211355.31973.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
In-Reply-To: <200408211346.44540.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
References:  <200408211346.44540.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>

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On Saturday 21 August 2004 13:46, R. W. wrote:
> I'm using 5.21 on a desktop computer with a dial-up modem. I tend to
> have several applications simultaneously sharing the connection, and
> I'm finding that this aspect isn't working as well as it does under
> windows 98.
>
> Under windows each tcp socket would tend to receive at about the same
> rate, and intermittent, interactive applications would quickly gain
> their fair share. Under FreeBSD a couple of sockets at a time tend to
> hog most of the bandwidth, and interactive applications get frozen
> out. I don't know what Windows is doing right, but I'm guessing it
> has some kind collective management of tcp window sizes, probably
> tied-in with the slow-start algorithm.
>
> Is there any relevant setting I can alter in FreeBSD 5.x  to improve
> it's behaviour?

Sorry, I sent two copies of this by mistake, when KMail crashed, please 
reply to the other. 



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