> Not to stroke the fire anymore, but that is good documentation about tcp
> tuning and sysctl, however what I was explaining was the lack of
> consistency and documentation for controling the hardcoding/auto setting
> of various ethernet drivers in Linux. Unless there is a tool I have yet
> to find, the settings have to be setup in /etc/modules.conf or
> /etc/conf.modules with parameters that seem to only be documented in the
> source code or README files in the drivers code.

Version 2.6 of the kernel has most of the drivers conforming to the
new specifications for doing this and you can use ethtool to set
the parameters

Dag

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