[112753] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Shady areas of TCP window autotuning?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Tue Mar 17 03:58:00 2009
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Marian =?utf-8?B?xI51cmtvdmnEjQ==?= <md@bts.sk>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:57:47 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20090316091537.GA25118@bts.sk> ("Marian =?utf-8?B?xI51cmtv?=
	=?utf-8?B?dmnEjSIncw==?= message of
	"Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:15:37 +0100")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
* Marian =C4=8Eurkovi=C4=8D:
>    TCP window autotuning is part of several OSs today. However, the actual
> implementations behind this buzzword differ significantly and might impose
> negative side-effects to our networks - which I'd like to discuss here.
> There seem to be two basic approaches which differ in the main principle:=
=20
This has bene discussed previously on the netdev list:
  <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/121674>
You may want to review the dicussion over there before replying on
NANOG.