[e2e] TCP Send Window in sessions with Microsoft platforms

Michael Laor mlaor at cisco.com
Wed May 2 13:56:47 PDT 2001


  It seemed to be the case in my experience as well. See also some
reference to the sending window size of Window's FTP  in
http://www.psc.edu/networking/perf_tune.html#Win98

Michael


eric23 at softhome.net wrote:

> Can someone help me out with this perhaps?
>
> My experience with Windows NT indicates that it uses an 8K send
> window for all FTP sessions.  This is to say that even if my
> box is configured for a large receive window, the FTP server won't
> send more than 8K per RTT.
>
> Can this really be the case?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Eric Goldman




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