Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:33:11 -0800 From: Erich Weiler <weiler@soe.ucsc.edu> To: Jason Wolfe <nitroboost@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, grenville armitage <garmitage@swin.edu.au> Subject: Re: Arg. TCP slow start killing me. Message-ID: <4EC061C7.1040406@soe.ucsc.edu> In-Reply-To: <4EC05F58.1050103@soe.ucsc.edu> References: <4EC033B7.5080609@soe.ucsc.edu> <4EC0395C.3030302@swin.edu.au> <4EC055CB.40100@soe.ucsc.edu> <4EC0585F.5000104@soe.ucsc.edu> <CAAAm0r0TO5ifZ_-s%2BJEN5jwRNuZQq=8t6zRRKSnfPBTO2Rb%2Bng@mail.gmail.com> <4EC05F58.1050103@soe.ucsc.edu>
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Actually, another question might be: How can I prove that my firewall really is dropping packets in transit, as it forwards them on? Is there some sysctl oid that would show dropped packets, so some netstat counter I can look at? On 11/13/11 4:22 PM, Erich Weiler wrote: >> Yeah, skimming fail, I didn't realize the machine was not the >> termination point of your connections. I do have patches back ported >> that would likely get the modular congestion control working on 8.1, >> but neither my suggestions nor the implementation of Cubic will help >> much as mentioned. > > Given that my firewall is simply forwarding packets in and out, and is > not an endpoint, does anyone think tuning up buffers would help here? If > so, which buffers/sysctl parameters would be worth trying? > > Thanks for the help everyone! > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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