To enable RFC 1323 Window Scaling and increase the TCP window size to 1 MB on
FreeBSD, add the following lines to /etc/sysctl.conf
and reboot.
net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=1
kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=16777216
net.inet.tcp.sendspace=1048576
net.inet.tcp.recvspace=1048576
You can make these changes on the fly via the sysctl
command.
sysctl net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=1
sysctl kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=16777216
sysctl net.inet.tcp.sendspace=1048576
sysctl net.inet.tcp.recvspace=1048576
In addition, FreeBSD may have a low number of network memory buffers (mbufs) by
default. You can view the current mbuf configuration by running netstat -m
. If
your mbuf value is too low, it may cause your system to become unresponsive to
the network. Increase the number of mbufs by adding the line below to /boot/
loader.conf
and rebooting.
kern.ipc.nmbclusters="16384"
Note: a reboot is required to increase the number of mbufs.