Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Changing maxsize of tcp receive window i 2.0.* | Date | Sat, 12 Sep 1998 19:06:15 +0100 (BST) |
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> is it possible to change the maximum size of tcp's receive > window during run time i 2.0.*, esp. 2.0.35? I've found the line > #define MAX_WINDOW 32767 in net/tcp.h, but would prefer > to be able to change it without recompiling and rebooting.
On both 2.0 and 2.1.x setting SO_RCVBUF will affect the window too (the window is about half of the receive buffer). Since 2.0.x doesnt support window scaling 32K is the limit top end anyway. (Using >32K causes nasty accidents with broken stacks that do signed maths on their windows)
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