I see that the tcp_recv_hiwat has finally been increased from 48K.  Yippee!

At http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=5031055, it says:

  If you are going to
  raise them, make it something respectable for this millenia. The issue
  happens if you make them exactly 64K. There are some silly network devices
  that seem to barf when they are right at this value. That means that you
  should probably make them 64000 (at least one MTU smaller than 64K in any
  case). Of course, on Linux boxen; I believe they are set to right around
  64K - but they also support RFC1323 for window scaling when you want larger
  than 64K.

I see the value was raised to 128000 instead of 128K.  Can anyone clue
me in on what problem is being avoided by not setting it to a power of
2?

TIA,
Mike

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Mike Gerdts
http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
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