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Re: [Discussion] CWND discrepancies

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Subject: Re: [Discussion] CWND discrepancies
From: John Heffner <jheffner@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:45:33 -0400
On Thursday 25 August 2005 03:51 am, sansa@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi all,
> i just did some files transfers (1 GB and 10 GB) and collected stats with
> web100, my observation is that with the transfer from one computer to
> another (say A to B) gave me a CWND of ~65,000 bytes, while in the reverse
> direction (say B to A) gave me a CWND of ~3000 bytes. Computer A has the
> web100 kernel and B doesn't and this was without adding web100 suggested
> configs to the /etc/sysctl.conf file of any of the computers. What could
> be causing this discrepancy?
> Thanks in advance,

Each direction of a connection has its own cwnd, maintained by the sender.  
What you're seeing on each host is the sender's cwnd for its half.  If you 
don't send any data from B to A, the ~3000 byte cwnd is just the initial 
window.

  -John

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