set SACK on and Fast Retransmit too.
"Vaclav Dvorak" <dvorakv@idas.cz> a écrit dans le message de
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> Hello,
>
> is there anything I can do to tune the Linux TCP implementation to be
> more able to deal with packet lossage? TCP seems to be made with the
> assumption that packet loss usually means congestion. Unfortunately, in
> my case, I have to deal with a link that has packet loss in the order of
> 50% (without congestion), and TCP is quite unable to deal with that. :-(
>
> Also, my wireless link transports way too many small packets, which is
> very inefficient. (There's a big overhead for each packet.) If I could
> somehow aggregate the traffic into fewer but larger packets, I believe I
> could achieve better speeds and perhaps even less packet loss (because
> of fewer collisions), at the cost of increased latency.
>
> So, is there any way to enforce the Nagle algorithm, and perhaps even
> prolong the delay that the TCP stack waits for more data before sending
> out a packet?
>
> Thanks for any advice!
>
> Vaclav Dvorak
>
> PS: Happy New Year!
>