Bandwidth issues in the Sprint network

Fri Apr 18 04:10:35 UTC 2008

Once upon a time, Lincoln Dale <ltd at interlink.com.au> said:
> even with tuned TCP window sizes, make sure you don't have TCP syncookies
> enabled on either endpoint.

IIRC Linux (at least) syncookies only come into play when you are being
syn-flooded (i.e. when the kernel has to start dropping syns).  Having
them enabled at other times has no impact, so there's rarely (if ever) a
reason to disable them.

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.