Subject: Re: TCP flow control - who can explain?
To: Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com>
From: Matthias Drochner <drochner@zel459.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
List: tech-net
Date: 08/29/1999 22:59:00
wolfgang@wsrcc.com said:
> One problem is that your netbsd box's window is closing.  You really
> should make the window at least 64k (or more if window scaling is
> available). 

Thanks - the "sendspace" made it. I've set it to 64k, as you
suggested, and got ~15MB/s troughput.
It's still sad that that the default settings give not only
a suboptimal but an absolutely pathetic performance...

(A new `tcpdump` appended for reference.)

best regards
Matthias

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