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What is "the size of two 14 KB bursts of Internet packets"? MTU is 1500 bytes before overheard. How did they get 14 KB? What significance does that have? And wh
by herpderperator 7y ago
What is "the size of two 14 KB bursts of Internet packets"? MTU is 1500 bytes before overheard. How did they get 14 KB? What significance does that have? And what is "burst"?
- herpderperator 7y agoLooks like they referenced it later in the article: https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2016/09/25/the-14kb-in-the-tcp-initial-window/ https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2016/09/25/the-14kb-in-the-tc... > So why try to squeeze a website into ~14KB? Seems like you should be trying to squeeze it into 1432 bytes. > I found my answer in IETF RFC 6928 – a proposal to increase the TCP Initial Window to 10 segments. The Initial Congestion Window (cwnd) is the maximum number of bytes that a server can send without receiving any acknowledgement that the bytes were received via a client ACK packet. This maximum number of bytes to send is calculated by multiplying some number by MSS. As of RFC 6928 some number is equal to 10 (initially).
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