Hi, Eric,
> For example, we've seen a problem on at least one RFC-1323 implementation
> (FreeBSD-2.2 don't know yet about later releases) where a sufficiently
> large buffer space was requested, receive windows advertised correctly
> but nevertheless, the OS was not allocating the necessary memory to the
> sending socket buffer to prevent the connections from becoming send-window
> limited. Chances are that the receiver had the same problem, but there
> was never enough data in-flight to verify it. The behavior was persistent
> and recreateable. This was on a 2Mbps connection with a .5 sec round trip,
> far less strenuous than Steve's scenario.
>
Do you have any additional info on the bug in FreeBSD? Have you contacted the FreeBSD
development team on this issue? I seem to have run into the same problem with 2.2.5
release.
Thanks,
Igor V. Alekseev
Visiting researcher, Telenor, Norway
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