Does RedHat7.3 have a send receive buffer that you can edit? I am new to the RH OS so excuse me if this sounds stupid. On my Windows 2000 machine I can increase the default size but don't have the first clue where to start with RH. I have a 3mbps down and 800 k upload internet connection (up to) and I don't think I am taking full advantage of it. Any docs that you may know of that I should read or any info on the subject would be great!

Thanks in advance.

go to this url and test the connection

http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks

then post the recommendations if any


and give more info on the type of connection.


here are some instructions if you want to try to tune it

http://www.psc.edu/networking/perf_tune.html#Linux

I went there...the applet actually loads (I have Mozilla browser) but if I press on the start button nothing happens...it doesn't start....it starts fine on my Windows machine though?

Dave I checked out this link you suggested....also at the dslreports site they had a link in their FAQ's to 'tweaking a linux connection' at:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc.../DSL-HOWTO.pdf

which helped. I changed the send and receive thru the /proc/sys/net/core directory. I'll have to monitor if packets are getting lossed due to the changes I made for awhile but at least my goal has been achieved.

Thanks.

yes, the other link in my post has some tweeks

if mozilla does not work try konqueror

Dave,

One more question, the author in that link you gave talks about

"If you would like these changes to be preserved across reboots, it may be a good idea to add these commands to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file."

He's reffering to adding these commands:

echo 8388608 > /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max
echo 8388608 > /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max
echo "4096 87380 4194304" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rmem
echo "4096 65536 4194304" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem


My question is would it have the same effect if I addded those values to the /etc/sysctl.conf file instead?

For example:

net.core.wmem_max = 8388608
net.core.rmem_max = 8388608
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 4194304 - should this value be in quotes?
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 65536 4194304 - should this value be in quotes?

It's very likely that that would be ok,

try it and see.

After reboot you can simply cat the proc file to see if it contains the correct number according to your settings.

Also these settings may not be the best for your connection, so you need to run a few tweek tests, maybe some speed tests, and see what's working best.