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Date:      Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:22:04 -0500
From:      Jason Hellenthal <jhell@DataIX.net>
To:        Erich Weiler <weiler@soe.ucsc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Jason Wolfe <nitroboost@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Arg. TCP slow start killing me.
Message-ID:  <20111114052204.GA46977@DataIX.net>
In-Reply-To: <4EC05511.1080102@soe.ucsc.edu>
References:  <4EC033B7.5080609@soe.ucsc.edu> <CAAAm0r3ur3YcKU51bhfzZspJuzOUVyhPf0zAxfa66ZChtwfh%2Bg@mail.gmail.com> <4EC05511.1080102@soe.ucsc.edu>

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Have you considered this thread ?

A Tale of a TCP bug...

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2011-April/028448.html

This was fixed in 8-STABLE before 8.2 release but after 8.1-RELEASE.

A pcap dump of the traffic at the routing end and the recieving end might just reveal this as the cause.

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 03:38:57PM -0800, Erich Weiler wrote:
> Thanks Jason!
> 
> > Is it possible to upgrade to 8.2-STABLE?  Cubic has shown some really
> > great improvement in my latent paths, a steady 10% overall increase in
> > same cases.
> 
> Alas no, my OS is a pre-baked install for pfSense, and if I tried to 
> upgrade it, it would likely break some of the functionality of how 
> pfSense is built.  I've considered patching in some kernel mods to add 
> cubic and H-TCP to the kernel, but even that makes me nervous.
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