cc_newreno (4)

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Copyright (c) 2009 Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@FreeBSD.org>
Copyright (c) 2011 The FreeBSD Foundation
All rights reserved.

Portions of this documentation were written at the Centre for Advanced
Internet Architectures, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne,
Australia by Lawrence Stewart under sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation.

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(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man4/cc_newreno.4freebsd".)

NAME

cc_newreno - NewReno Congestion Control Algorithm

DESCRIPTION

The NewReno congestion control algorithm is the default for TCP. Details about the algorithm can be found in RFC5681.

MIB Variables

There are currently no tunable MIB variables.

SEE ALSO

cc_chd4, cc_cubic4, cc_hd4, cc_htcp4, cc_vegas4, mod_cc4, tcp(4), mod_cc9

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Development and testing of this software were made possible in part by grants from the FreeBSD Foundation and Cisco University Research Program Fund at Community Foundation Silicon Valley.

HISTORY

The ifconfig congestion control algorithm first appeared in its modular form in Fx 9.0 .

The module was first released in 2007 by James Healy and Lawrence Stewart whilst working on the NewTCP research project at Swinburne University of Technology's Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures, Melbourne, Australia, which was made possible in part by a grant from the Cisco University Research Program Fund at Community Foundation Silicon Valley. More details are available at:

caia.swin.edu.au/urp/newtcp

AUTHORS

An -nosplit The ifconfig congestion control module was written by An James Healy Aq jimmy@deefa.com , An Lawrence Stewart Aq lstewart@FreeBSD.org and An David Hayes Aq david.hayes@ieee.org .

This manual page was written by An Lawrence Stewart Aq lstewart@FreeBSD.org .