From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ross Skaliotis Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 05:13:53 +0000 Subject: [LARTC] Clamping tcp mss values to decrease latency Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Hello, I have an interesting question. I can't find a solution anywhere to this problem. I have an adsl connection which is able to send a full data packet in about 150ms. I want to cut this time down to decrease latency while serving files, so I thought I'd try and reduce the packet size for the offending upload streams (my webserver). The trick is that I also want all other tcp connections to have the normal full packet size. Enter MSS-clamping. My pppoe client for linux can do mss clamping on every packet that goes out and come in. Not enough control. There is an option to do mss-clamping in iptables, however this only works in the forward table. I can't match and control outgoing web connections, just connections getting routed through the machine. Any ideas? -Ross Skaliotis _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/lartc/