RFC 3390: Increasing TCP's Initial Window

[Lars Eggert]

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        RFC 3390

        Title:      Increasing TCP's Initial Window
        Author(s):  M. Allman, S. Floyd, C. Partridge
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       October 2002
        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3390.txt


This document specifies an optional standard for TCP to increase the
permitted initial window from one or two segment(s) to roughly 4K
bytes, replacing RFC 2414.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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Time to default net.inet.tcp.slowstart_flightsize to 4? (I've been running with this for a long time w/o problems.)

Lars
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