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| Newer page: | version 2 | Last edited on Thursday, March 23, 2006 2:18:45 pm | by IanMcDonald | Revert |
| Older page: | version 1 | Last edited on Friday, January 27, 2006 1:45:08 pm | by IanMcDonald | Revert |
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[TCP] can be tuned quite a bit as the defaults don't always work well on things like high speed networks.
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-There are limits on how fast things can go. Have a look at this page http://wand.net.nz/~perry/max_download.php
There are plenty of resources out on the web giving tuning advice:
* This one is pretty good and up to date: http://www-didc.lbl.gov/TCP-tuning/linux.html
* This one is OK but some parts are wrong for newer kernels: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-hisock.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01BoostSocket
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-See also
TcpWindow
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-AddToMe
+The main thing for end nodes is that your
TcpWindow needs to be bigger than the sum of your BandwidthDelayProduct.
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+Your speed is limited by the size of your packets (check your [MSS]), the loss rate, the [RTT] and how you use Delayed Acks. For an online calculator see: http://wand.net.nz/~perry/max_download.php
