tcp_syncookie question

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On 06/01/2011 02:20 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
as squeezed out if I remember right to make room
>> for the cookie) ...
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>>    and therefore some performance degradation when the machine gets busy
>> ... so its never been totally problem free in that sense ...
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> Depending on what you do, more than "some." As physical distance goes up and 
> speed goes up, the penalty for small window size goes up as well. Pulling a 
> TB/day or so from NY to CA I used large window sizes to make it possible.
> 

  As the internet has gotten faster, that was exactly my concern ...