* window field in TCP header.
@ 2001-07-06 2:54 Manish Jain
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From: Manish Jain @ 2001-07-06 2:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Hello,
I am running linux kernal 2.4.2 .
My query is concerning the manner in which the TCP code
handles the initial window size value ( RWIN ) in the TCP header.
I observed that RWIN that the client
announces is 5840 bytes in the <SYN> packet irrespective of what value
I set using the setsockopt .
Is there any particular reason for this ?
It seems to me as a too small a value.
Secondly, any way to get around this ?
I checked the /proc/sys/net/core/* where the defaults are set.
rmem_default is set to 65535 . Similarly wmem_default.
Further more, when I checked the complete packet trace using tcpdump for
the FTP data connection ( for a large file transfer ) , it seems that
though TCP starts with a RWIN of 5840 in the <SYN> segement but keeps on
increasing the RWIN as the connection progresses upto 47784 .
Next, I modified FTP code to set the initial window field to 500 K bytes.
The window field in the <SYN> packet should have been 64 K and wscale = 3.
But again the window field was 5840 bytes and wscale = 1.
After some packets were transferred , the window field increased upto
47784 but not beyond that.
Now the RFC 1323 says that the receiver will left-shift window field
of every incoming segemet by wscale bits.
Left shifting 47784 by 1 bit would in no way offer me th desired window
( 500 K bytes ).
Is there some thing that I am doing wrong or is there something wrong in
the TCP implementation ?
Please CC any replies to my email id.
Thanks,
Manish
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