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Re: Latency, TCP ACKs and upload needs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lee)
Wed Apr 20 11:37:08 2016

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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 11:37:03 -0400
From: Lee <ler762@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 4/20/16, Leo Bicknell wrote:
>
> Others have already answered with the technical details.  Let me take a
> stab at some more, uh, variable items.

  [.. snip lots ..]

> 90%+ of the stacks deployed will be too small.  Modern Unix generally
> has "autotuning" TCP stacks, but I don't think Windows or OS X has
> those features yet (but I'd be very happy to be wrong on that point).

Windows has had an autotuning stack since at least Vista.

Regards,
Lee

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