ipw2200 and tcp tweaks

Maxim Yegorushkin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.ipw2100.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Is it a good idea to enable the following tcp options when using ipw2200 driver?

# echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_frto
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_low_latency

man tcp(7)

tcp_frto (Boolean; default: disabled)
        Enables F-RTO, an enhanced recovery algorithm for  TCP  retrans-
        mission  timeouts.   It  is  particularly beneficial in wireless
        environments where packet loss is typically due to random  radio
        interference rather than intermediate router congestion.

tcp_low_latency (Boolean; default: disabled)
        If  enabled,  the  TCP  stack  makes decisions that prefer lower
        latency as opposed to higher throughput.  It this option is dis-
        abled,  then  higher  throughput is preferred.  An example of an
        application where this default should  be  changed  would  be  a
        Beowulf compute cluster.


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