Linux-Hams archive - May 1999: Re: TCP/IP Window Size

Re: TCP/IP Window Size

Tomi Manninen (zukh@mail.dy.fi)
Sat, 1 May 1999 14:48:15 +0300 (EEST)


On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Jorge Matias wrote:

> How can I figure which values are the correct ones to put in option
> "window" in the command "route"?
> Is there a base value which we can use to multiply by the numbers of
> the maximum TCP/IP frames we want send at a time?

Yes. Slightly simpilified you get the window by multiplying a base value
of MTU - 40 which would be 216 in most cases. I use a window of 864 bytes
on my ham machines.

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