Re: receive window limited to 8192 bytes in PPP connections

Mark Allman <mallman@grc.nasa.gov> Tue, 03 December 2002 13:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: receive window limited to 8192 bytes in PPP connections
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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 14:25:37 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Gokul Poduval <gokulpod@comp.nus.edu.sg>
Cc: tcp-impl@grc.nasa.gov
Subject: Re: receive window limited to 8192 bytes in PPP connections

On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 10:46:37AM +0100, Gokul Poduval wrote:
>    Recently when I was testing a few PPP connections, I found out that
> PPP connections in linux limit their receive window to 8192 bytes. Is
> there anyway to increase the receive window upto 64kbytes ?

Look at a longer trace. The window starts at 8k, but increases
over time.

- -Andi

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