Re: Slow performance on Novell DOS TCP/IP but great with Linux.. Help!

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From: David A. Ranch
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 00:00

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Vernon Schryver <vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com> wrote:

>The default TCP window for IRIX, the likely UNIX varient used on Silicon
>Graphics boxes, has bee 61440 for several years.  Other vendors use
>other values, usually smaller.  (A default window of 60K has advantages
>as well as disadvantages compared to smaller values.)

Where is this setting?  Is it compiled into the kernel or is this configurable?
I would understand such a large window for something like FDDI but 10Mb/s Ethernet?

--David


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From: dranch@ecst.csuchico.edu (David A. Ranch)
Subject: Re: Slow performance on Novell DOS TCP/IP but great with Linux.. Help!
Date: 1995/06/30
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