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| author | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-03-14 16:56:27 +0000 |
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| committer | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-03-14 16:56:27 +0000 |
| commit | 1912035aa66fa9ac27c3c60eb8efc7b7e86a68a0 (patch) | |
| tree | 0cd7486cfa5ca13cb65457395865c62df3f63fb6 /release/doc | |
| parent | 824c8b0bd43a7655b2465a80b5f2594a4aafc727 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-1912035aa66fa9ac27c3c60eb8efc7b7e86a68a0.zip FreeBSD-src-1912035aa66fa9ac27c3c60eb8efc7b7e86a68a0.tar.gz | |
New release notes: RFC 3042 (limited transmit), RFC 3390 (increased
initial TCP window sizes).
Submitted by: hsu
Diffstat (limited to 'release/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 16 |
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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index f27158e..0c7ff12 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -239,6 +239,22 @@ fast recovery when NewReno was enabled, has been fixed. &merged;</para> + <para>TCP now has support for the <quote>Limited + Transmit</quote> mechanism proposed by RFC 3042. This feature + is intended to improve the effectiveness of TCP loss recovery + in certain circumstances. It is off by default but can be + enabled with the <varname>net.inet.tcp.rfc3042</varname> + sysctl variable. More information can be found in + &man.tcp.4;.</para> + + <para>TCP now has support for increased initial congestion + window sizes as described in RFC 3390. This feature can + improve the throughput of short transfers, as well as + high-bandwidth, large propagation-delay connections. It is + off by default but can be enabled with the + <varname>net.inet.tcp.rfc3390</varname> sysctl variable. More + information can by found in &man.tcp.4;.</para> + <para>The IP fragment reassembly code behaves more gracefully when receiving a large number of packet fragments (it is designed to be more resistant to fragment-based denial of diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml index f27158e..0c7ff12 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -239,6 +239,22 @@ fast recovery when NewReno was enabled, has been fixed. &merged;</para> + <para>TCP now has support for the <quote>Limited + Transmit</quote> mechanism proposed by RFC 3042. This feature + is intended to improve the effectiveness of TCP loss recovery + in certain circumstances. It is off by default but can be + enabled with the <varname>net.inet.tcp.rfc3042</varname> + sysctl variable. More information can be found in + &man.tcp.4;.</para> + + <para>TCP now has support for increased initial congestion + window sizes as described in RFC 3390. This feature can + improve the throughput of short transfers, as well as + high-bandwidth, large propagation-delay connections. It is + off by default but can be enabled with the + <varname>net.inet.tcp.rfc3390</varname> sysctl variable. More + information can by found in &man.tcp.4;.</para> + <para>The IP fragment reassembly code behaves more gracefully when receiving a large number of packet fragments (it is designed to be more resistant to fragment-based denial of |
