Subject: more TCP parameters?

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 94 15:17:59 -0500

Most TCP implementations allow the user (e.g., an entity, such as DLSw, that 
uses TCP) to specify the TCP collection time and the TCP collection size
that correspond to a TCP connection whenever the entity opens a TCP connection
(e.g., establishes a TCP connection or posts a listen for a TCP connection).

The collection time refers to the maximum time that TCP waits after having
obtained data from the user to send over the TCP connection for more data
from the user so that all the data can be concatenated into a single TCP
packet to send over the TCP connection.

The collection size refers to the maximum amount of data from a user that
TCP will concatenate into a TCP packet.

These parameters are similar to the initial window size for a TCP connection
because most TCP implemenations also allow the user to specify the initial 
window size whenever the entity opens a TCP connection.

Alan Sciacca