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From: peter@cyklop.volvo.se (peter hakanson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Default tcp window size
Date: 20 Nov 1996 10:36:08 GMT
Organization: Volvo Corp.
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I noticed that tcp-sessions uses an advertized tcp window size
of 8 k. Why not full windows ? Can i change this
on a machine basis ? 

Is there any application that uses window scale (which seems
to be supported in the kernel) ? Any experiences ?

We are running 2.0.1 and 2.1 (mostly)
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