Internet DRAFT - draft-add-ackfreq-to-tcp
draft-add-ackfreq-to-tcp
Internet-Draft M. Larue
draft-add-ackfreq-to-tcp-00.txt Rupy
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Custom TCP Ack. Frequency
Abstract
You should be able to configure the amount of unacknowledged packets
a tcp socket uses to throttle sends.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ................................................... 1
1. Introduction
To do this you just need to add a TCP_ACKFREQ option:
int freq = 5;
setsockopt(sock, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_ACKFREQ, (char*) &freq, sizeof(int));
Where 5 is an example of how many unacknowledged packets the socket
can send without blocking, right now this number is hardcoded to 2.
Authors' Addresses
Marc Larue
Sweden
M. Larue Internet-Draft [Page 1]
