Re: Increase tcp initial window

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20130406100906.GA3213%wolfman.devio.us@localhost>,
Loganaden Velvindron  <loganaden%wolfman.devio.us@localhost> wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 07:28:53AM -0400, John Hawkinson wrote:
>> Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden%wolfman.devio.us@localhost> wrote on Sat, 30 
>> Mar 2013
>> at 01:44:00 -0400 in <20130330054400.GA26793%wolfman.devio.us@localhost>:
>> 
>> > It seems to be getting a lot of revisions. Other BSDs have also
>> > implemented it.
>> 
>> Loganaden, Greg's criticism is of making the parameter entirely tunable.
>> In a fashion that would allow an ignorant user to set an initial
>> window of not just 10, but also 20, 40, 50, 100.
>> 
>> Are you saying that other BSDs permit that?
>
>None of them allows use to set it to an arbitary value.

As I mentioned before, this ship has sailed:

1.29         (thorpej  11-Dec-97):      { "init_win", CTLTYPE_INT }, \

We already allow setting the initial window to anything, but some people
cannot be bothered to read the source instead of arguing.

christos