Re: RFC1323 Window scale behavior

From: joe black ([email protected])
Date: Wed Jan 17 2001 - 22:51:07 EST

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    Hi Marcus,

     I'm from Uni Science M'sia. I have a few questions:

    1) I would like to know if there is any tool to determine the TCP window size in Linux Redhat 6.2. (kernel 2.2.16)?
    Or can I know the default window size? Also, is there any tool that can be used to control the window size??

    2) If I enable TCP_WINDOW_SCALING, how can I know how big is the window size?

     If any of you can help, I would be very grateful.

    Rgds,
    joe

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Markus Buchhorn [email protected]
    Sent: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:08:05 +1100
    To: [email protected], [email protected]
    CC: [email protected]
    Subject: Re: RFC1323 Window scale behavior

    The Windows (NT4) ftp client has an option (-w) to set the buffer size for
    transfers. This seems to work (it significantly increased performance on
    our ATM network) (although on NT4 we can't go past 64k, of course).

    C:\>ftp -?
      [...]
      -w:buffersize Overrides the default transfer buffer size of 4096.

    Why, oh why, do they do this....

    You haven't said anywhere how you are doing file transfers? ftp, smb, http,
    ... ?

    Cheers,
            Markus

    At 16:23 17/01/01 -0500, Eric Travis wrote:
    >
    >Most likely your FTP client (and or server) is
    >explicitly setting the send/receive buffers
    >thus overriding the default values you tweaked.
    >Do you have access to an alternative FTP client
    >and/or server?
    >
    >Eric
    >
    >
    >
    >On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, JTEOIETF wrote:
    >
    >> Both client and server are configured to operate with
    >> window scaling...Tcp1323opts = 1, tcpwindowsize = 524 k,
    >> etc. During some SYN, ACK/SYN handshaking sequences,
    >> the scaling option is on and at the correct scale factor.
    >> Other times it is not...especially when I need it, such
    >> as file transfer. Any other thoughts...
    >
    >
    >
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