Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 08:50:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/28882: Network defaults are absurdly low. Message-ID: <200107111550.f6BFo2g12771@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/28882; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, bicknell@ufp.org, ras@e-gerbil.net Subject: Re: conf/28882: Network defaults are absurdly low. Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:42:20 -0400 On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 11:31:57PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > I think all the suggestions here are valid, however not for > the default FreeBSD install. Your efforts would be much better > spent writing a section of the handbook or providing a patch > that either documents or makes it easy to set the values > for higher performance via rc.conf. My methods aside, I will respectfully disagree. Working for an ISP I explain to 2-3 customers per month why a user on a cable modem can't get full speed to a server on our network, and ever time turning up the tcp sizes fixes it. 16k is too small. I will accept that I'm way off base, and that maybe 32k is all that's needed. I think it is reasonable for an end user to expect a system on a DSL/Cable modem line can take full advantage of it, and that some of us "smart people" should be able to make that happen in some reasonable way. A handbook section is definately necessary though, as there are clearly a number of special cases (in particular IRC and News servers, but also web and ftp servers) that may need additional changes. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440 Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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