RFC 3390: Increasing TCP's Initial Window

In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC

This document specifies an optional standard for TCP to increase the permitted initial window from one segment to roughly 4K bytes, replacing RFC 2414. This document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the higher initial window. The document includes discussion of experiments and simulations showing that the higher initial window does not lead to congestion collapse. Finally, the document provides guidance on implementation issues.

Document record

Document ID

RFC3390

Published

November 2002

Authors

M. Allman; S. Floyd; C. Partridge

Status

PROPOSED STANDARD

Stream

IETF

Area

wit

Pages

15

Also known as

—

Obsoletes:

RFC 2414

Updates:

RFC 2581

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• IETF Datatracker history
• DOI: 10.17487/RFC3390
• Reported errata exist →

Topics

• TCP
• transmission control protocol

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• PROPOSED STANDARD
• 2002
• IETF stream
• wit area