What ever happened with this? "eXperimental bandwidth delay product code"

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Jul 9 12:40:31 PDT 2003


In the last episode (Jul 09), Max Clark said:
> > 6000000/8*.220 = 165Kbytes or 1.32Mbit/s
> 
> I understand the BDP concept and the calculation to then generate the
> tcp window sizes. What I don't understand is this...
> 
> How in the world is a windows 2000 box running commercial software
> able to push this link to 625KByte/s (5Mbit/s)????

Perhaps it defaults to a larger window size?  You can easily verify
this with tcpdump or ethereal.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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