Kacheong Poon wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > >> We could implement auto-tuning in ssh/sshd, as a stopgap, I suppose, but >> that would be a new project and probably wouldn't get off the ground >> soon enough. > > > One problem of implementing this in user land is that we > don't allow shrinking of the receive buffer (which in turns > control the TCP receive window). The reason is that TCP > should not shrink the receive window (moving the right edge > of the receive window left). In order to reduce the receive > window, TCP needs to keep the right edge fixed until it can > be moved right when the window is now of the reduced size.
But these things could be added to Solaris, yes? > We don't have this hence we don't allow shrinking of the > receive buffer. > > The above means that an app cannot use setsockopt(SO_RCVBUF) > to fine tune the TCP window ... and then these things would be possible? - Jeremy Harris _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
