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| -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 |
