>> For quite some time (I observed this in the summer too, but figured it
>> would go away), -current TCP has been performing very badly for short
>> file transfers. An example will show what I'm talking about.
>
>Try turning off rfc1323 support:
>
>	sysctl w net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0
>
>only in newer builds. In older versions you have to edit a kernel file.
>
>This worked for me.
>
>Regads,
>-- 
>Peter Galbavy                                           peter@wonderland.org

[snip]

If DDB is compiled in the kernal, then you should be able to alter the
symbol _tcp_do_rfc1323.  Putting a zero here should turn off the time
stamp feature.


Brad Spencer - brad@anduin.eldar.org   http://anduin.eldar.org