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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: hagen@jauu.net
Cc: fw@strlen.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org, ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] syncookies: do not store rcv_wscale in tcp timestamp
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:27:23 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100626.212723.63040028.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100624221416.GA31116@nuttenaction>

From: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:14:16 +0200

> why not limit the window to 2^16 bytes which is sufficient for
> 99.9999% of the use case?

This may have been true 8 years ago, but it is not any longer.

You will underutilize your link with anything smaller than
~512k on the modern internet.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-27  4:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-21 21:48 [PATCH 1/2] syncookies: do not store rcv_wscale in tcp timestamp Florian Westphal
2010-06-21 21:48 ` [PATCH 2/2] syncookies: add support for ECN Florian Westphal
2010-06-27  5:00   ` David Miller
2010-06-23 20:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] syncookies: do not store rcv_wscale in tcp timestamp Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2010-06-24  7:53   ` Florian Westphal
2010-06-24 22:14     ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2010-06-27  4:27       ` David Miller [this message]
2010-06-27  5:00 ` David Miller

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