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Re: Bandwidth issues in the Sprint network

  • From: Chris Adams
  • Date: Fri Apr 18 00:27:02 2008

Once upon a time, Lincoln Dale <[email protected]> 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.

-- 
Chris Adams <[email protected]>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.