On Monday 18 October 2004 20:44, you wrote: > > I am running tcp over a point-to-point lossy > link and there can be long delays in some cases > due to TCP backoff after a prticular sequence of > lost packets. > > Are there any parameters I can tweak to make > TCP deal better with a lossy link ??? > Hi, I made some tests over lossy links (Packet error rate up to 5%). TCP-Westwood+ patch by Angelo Dall'Aera (included from 2.6.3) seems to improve performances expecially when dealing with long TCP connections. -- Daniele Lacamera root at danielinux.net - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html