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- From: gmarzot@mitre.org (G. S. Marzot)
- Subject: Round Trip Time(RTT) and FTP
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:33:58 GMT
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- Here are some interesting issues that I have been having trouble nailing
- down concerning the behavior of TCP, and FTP on top of TCP in particular. I
- am on a Sun SPARC 2 SunOS 4.1.2
-
- When FTP begins a file transfer, assuming the connection has already been
- established, it makes another connection to host1.ftp-data, negotiates MSS
- and window sizes(in my case mss=1460 and window=24576) and then starts
- transferring data. The question is - does the second connection use the RTT
- calculated when the FTP session was brought up or must it recalculate it
- anew?
-
- What is the initial guess at RTT(and corresponding RXMIT timer) for a new
- TCP connection?
-
- Can this be changed? by FTP? in the kernel?
-
- Is there a way to monitor/log the progress of the RTT calculations for a
- particular connection?
-
- Does Sun's implementation of TCP use adaptive window slow start algoritms?
-
- I have seen FTP sessions negotiate different maximum segment sizes(mss) for
- different connections - what are the issues driving the selection of an mss
- and can this be controlled by the user?
-
- Thank you very much in advance for any light shed.
-
- -GSM
-