Rephrase certain centences and sync description of default values to reality.

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Andre Oppermann 2004-10-23 18:37:23 +00:00
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.\" From: @(#)tcp.4 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd October 12, 2004
.Dd October 23, 2004
.Dt TCP 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -408,10 +408,6 @@ the transmit side of a
connection.
.It Va inflight.debug
Enable debugging for the bandwidth-delay product algorithm.
This may
default to on (1), so if you enable the algorithm,
you should probably also
disable debugging by setting this variable to 0.
.It Va inflight.min
This puts a lower bound on the bandwidth-delay product window, in bytes.
A value of 1024 is typically used for debugging.
@ -454,11 +450,8 @@ as well as reducing the algorithm's ability to adapt to changing
situations and should only be done as a last resort.
.It Va rfc3042
Enable the Limited Transmit algorithm as described in RFC 3042.
It
helps avoid timeouts on lossy links and also when the congestion window
It helps avoid timeouts on lossy links and also when the congestion window
is small, as happens on short transfers.
This is a standards track RFC
and is off by default.
.It Va rfc3390
Enable support for RFC 3390, which allows for a variable-sized
starting congestion window on new connections, depending on the
@ -466,8 +459,6 @@ maximum segment size.
This helps throughput in general, but
particularly affects short transfers and high-bandwidth large
propagation-delay connections.
This is a standards track RFC and
support for it is off by default.
.Pp
When this feature is enabled, the
.Va slowstart_flightsize