[Samba] Re: Unusable performance over WAN (part 2)

James Lamanna jlamanna at gmail.com
Mon Oct 8 20:03:04 GMT 2007


On 10/8/07, Mike Eggleston <mikeegg1 at mac.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Oct 2007, James Lamanna might have said:
>
> > On 10/8/07, Mike Eggleston <mikeegg1 at mac.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 08 Oct 2007, James Lamanna might have said:
> > >
> > > > So as it turns out, apparently it was a window scaling issue.
> > > > Turning on an excessively large window size on the routers (thereby
> > > > enabling dynamic TCP window scaling) seems to have fixed the issue. I
> > > > now get transfer rates around 130-160k/s.
> > >
> > > Great. For hysterical porpoises please document what specific changes
> > > you made on the windows boxes and what specific changes you made on
> > > your router.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> >
> > The only change I made on the routers was I added the global
> > configuration command (both Cisco routers btw)
> > ip tcp window-size 750000
> >
> > -- James
>
> And the change on the windows box?
>
> Mike
>

Actually no changes to the windows box.
They seem to behaving well now.
Most of my tests were done with smbclient from a linux box anyways.

-- James


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