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Re: TCP/IP performance tuning



On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Isaac Aaron wrote:

> Hey list,
> 
> Are there any variables/system values I can play with to improve TCP/IP
> performance?

the sources are open to all your tunings, changing the MTU is simple
with the ifconfig command

> I have used a small utility (MTUSpeed) on Windows and it has substantially
> increased network performance, especially when talking to non Windows
> servers, now I'm trying to do the same to my proxy server.

first, you can tweak the server itself (squid?), and if the router can
give its packets priority it also helps. check out QOS in the kernel
config options.

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