Shady areas of TCP window autotuning?

Tue Mar 17 07:57:47 UTC 2009

* Marian Ďurkovič:

>    TCP window autotuning is part of several OSs today. However, the actual
> implementations behind this buzzword differ significantly and might impose
> negative side-effects to our networks - which I'd like to discuss here.
> There seem to be two basic approaches which differ in the main principle: 

This has bene discussed previously on the netdev list:

  <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/121674>

You may want to review the dicussion over there before replying on
NANOG.