On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:39:18PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Does this help get it started in right direction?? Yes. > -------------------------------------------- > > This is an implementation of the TCP protocol defined in > RFC 793, RFC 1122 and RFC 2001 with the NewReno and SACK > extensions. It provides a reliable, stream-oriented, Perhaps drop NewReno, it's really obsolete because Linux is so far beyond. > > Note that TCP actually allocates twice the size of the > buffer requested in The "twice" is obsolete, it's far more complicated now. So it should be just "more" I think > socket option is enabled, urgent data is put into the > normal data stream (a program can test for its location > using the SIOCATMARK ioctl described below), otherwise it > can be only received when the MSG_OOB flag is set for > recv(2) or recvmsg(2). > > Linux supports multiple different congestion control > algorithms. The default choice of congestion control is controlled > by net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control sysctl. This value can > be overridden by TCP_CONGESTION socket option. The actual choices > of congestion control available vary according between release > as more are added, and depend on the configuration choices Hmm perhaps mention the current standard default? > made when the kernel was built. The list of congestion control > protocols currently loaded is in net.ipv4.tcp_available_congestion_control. Best would be probably to have an manpage for each of them, but I'm not going to write them :) -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
