Archive for the 'tcp' Category

Gettys: Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another [LWN.net]

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

Interesting discussion on LWN about an article describes problem with packet loss on home broadband networks due to improper buffer sizes in various network gear (routers, cable/dsl modems, switches, etc) along the route path.

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TCP Tuning Guide [Office of Science, DOE, US GOV]

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Excellent site provides both theoretical background and practical recommendation for the situation when you need to push limits of TCP links using regular OS and commodity hardware. Especially useful if you need to do it via long-haul fast TCP link,…

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