On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:56:32 +0100 Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 The "twice" is obsolete, it's far more complicated now.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? There is no "standard default" it is a kernel config option. And it may change in future, so writing it into the manual page seems being short sighted. -- 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