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Re: PC Bozo's World bites again (CNN, too)

  • From: ken emery
  • Date: Thu May 28 01:40:50 1998 
On Wed, 27 May 1998, Michael Dillon wrote:

> Most people are changing the MTU to speed up web browsing which is data
> intensive, not interactive. I think Karl's explanation of broken Windows
> TCP/IP stacks is more likely the root cause of the problem.
> 
> But has anyone ever done a proper test of this with sniffers at both the
> client end of the network and the webserver end of the network?

Yes, and like Karl said things work better with the smaller MTU (like it 
or not).  Adjusting other TCP parameters is also a good idea on your servers
(although things are better now, *nix boxes of a few years ago just weren't 
tuned to be used with 14.4 and 28.8 modems).

bye,
ken emery