In some mail from gregory duchemin, sie said: > > hello, > > know if the TCP silly window syndrome might be used too ? > Uploading/downloading files byte per byte to/from a remote ftp server with a > stupid window size of one byte may generate a very high overhead. Silly window sizes aren't so bad. If you have a window size of one then you only ever have one outstanding piece of data sent at a time. So if I have 16k of data, it might take 32k or more packets, but I can only send one packet at a time. In contrast, if I have a window of 16384 but the TCP MSS is only 1, I can send all 16384 bytes now, each in their own packet, and more as I get ACKs from the receiver. Darren
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