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- From: "Albert P. Belle Isle" <belleisl@cerberus-sys.com>
- Newsgroups: alt.winsock.trumpet,alt.winsock,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Not your usual MTU/MSS question
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 11:40:33 -0500
- Organization: Cerberus Systems, Inc.
- Message-ID: <31499D81.6FB3@cerberus-sys.com>
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- Mike Grimes wrote:
- >
- > I think I have a fairly good understanding of the relationship between
- > MTU, MSS, & RWIN. When I run a TCP trace I see a series of 15 MSS size
- > data segments followed by a single 152 byte data segment. This
- > pattern is repeated many times during a download.
- >
- > My current setting is: MTU=1500/MSS=536/RWIN=2680. Now if I multiply
- > 536 times 15 and add the 152 byte segment I get 8192 bytes (8K) of
- > data for the repeated pattern. What I want to know is why is this so?
- > I notice in the trumpwsk.ini there is a setting of 8192 given to two
- > items: slip-rcvbuf & slip-sndbuf. Changing these two items does not
- > affect the pattern.
- >
- > Following is the TCP trace in question:
- > ---------------------------------- snip ------------------------------
- >
- > Mike Grimes
-
-
- Mike:
-
- I believe that what you're seeing is the result of a relayed TCP transfer.
-
- (There's a control flag in the TCP header that can be set by the sender to ensure that
- intermediary TCP relay servers don't hold segments for forwarding as a block, but pass
- each one through as it arrives.)
-
- The relaying server could be a proxy at your ISP's network, if you have one designated
- in your Netscape options, or it could be a firewall at the network on which the sending
- TCP server resides, and through which his traffic must pass.
-
- There's a movie site from which I occasionally download that shows exactly the same TCP
- trace on my machine. (I don't use proxies.)
-
- Regards,
-
- Al
-
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