[K12OSN] Tweaking Gigabit Ethernet

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Thu Jun 30 20:02:00 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 11:26, Bill Bardon wrote:
> On Wednesday, Jun 29 Les Mikesell wrote:
> > Those changes won't hurt anything and might help a bit, but the
> > window size change is aimed at increasing the transfer speed of
> > a single connection. You are likely to have dozens of concurrent
> > connections and won't wait until you've hit the window size on
> > all of them.  Also, if the other ends are all 100M, you don't
> > want to get too far ahead.
> 
> Thanks, Les.  So you think I should just leave well enough alone?  Or
> use his tweaks but with smaller values?

I'd leave window size alone.  The others shouldn't hurt but probably
aren't necessary.  You could try them and see if you can tell any
difference.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com






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