RFC 2414: Increasing TCP's Initial Window

This document specifies an increase in the permitted initial window for TCP from one segment to roughly 4K bytes. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol…

Read RFC 2414 on the RFC Editor

Outgoing relationships (9 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Informative reference — RFC 1191: Path MTU discovery
Informative reference — RFC 2018: TCP Selective Acknowledgment Options
Informative reference — RFC 1945: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0
Informative reference — RFC 2068: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
Informative reference — RFC 2309: Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet
Informative reference — RFC 2001: TCP Slow Start, Congestion Avoidance, Fast Retransmit, and Fast Recovery Algorithms
Informative reference — RFC 2415: Simulation Studies of Increased Initial TCP Window Size
Informative reference — RFC 2416: When TCP Starts Up With Four Packets Into Only Three Buffers

Incoming relationships (8 related RFCs)

Obsoleted by — RFC 3390: Increasing TCP's Initial Window
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5681: TCP Congestion Control
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2581: TCP Congestion Control
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2525: Known TCP Implementation Problems
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6928: Increasing TCP's Initial Window
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2760: Ongoing TCP Research Related to Satellites
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9040: TCP Control Block Interdependence
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2488: Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels using Standard Mechanisms