On Tue Feb 23 04:32:50 PST 2016, 23h...@gmail.com wrote: > erik: I don't think nowadays we need to limit rwin unless we > artificially want to reduce the bandwidth (e.g. in my torrent program, > or an rsync that's running in the background and shouldn't use up the > whole bandwidth of the slow DSL uplink). > in the past it seems to have been used to combat memory limitations of > the receiver. but nowadays we have enough memory, so in normal > operation rwin should always be fully open.
we're not. we're advertizing 65535<<4, as noted earlier. - erik