Hi, On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 02:22:39PM -0700, Christopher Hunt wrote: > Thanks for the reply. I understand that those values are not > recommended and in fact i do not use them outside of the lab. I am, > however, struggling to understand how TCP reacts to very very low burst > levels. What mechanism is causing such low throughput as the > tcp_receive_window values are not low?
tcp_receive_window is set by the receiver, which doesn't know anything
about line conditions. The receive window is a function of locally
available buffer space.
The TCP sender will notice packet loss, and throttle the sending rate.
gert
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