[AusNOG] Why not Symmetric ingress and egress?

[Andrew Fort]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:24 PM,  <craig at askings.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> Like, for example, cloud backup services (for your home computers), which
>> are a total waste of time with the current uplink speeds (and quotas).
>
> Assuming they know that TCP window scaling is an important thing to have.
> At the office we trialed one provider and they couldn't get more that
> 1mbit/s up as their client software didn't set correct bits during the TCP
> handshake.
>

Say again?  Don't you set these things in the TCP stack - i.e., the
kernel - rather than the application?

e.g., echo 1 > /proc/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling # linux