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11554 Want TCP_CONGESTION socket option
Reviewed by: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@nexenta.com>

*** 261,270 **** --- 261,286 ---- first starts and restarts after an idle period. The process must have the .Dv PRIV_SYS_NET_CONFIG privilege if it wants to specify a number greater than that calculated by RFC 3390. + .Pp + The operating system also provides alternative algorithms that may be more + appropriate for your application, including the CUBIC congestion control + algorithm described in RFC 8312. + These can be configured system-wide using + .Xr ipadm 1M , + or on a per-connection basis with the TCP-level socket option + .Dv TCP_CONGESTION , + whose argument is the name of the algorithm to use + .Pq for example Dq cubic . + If the requested algorithm does not exist, then + .Fn setsockopt + will fail, and + .Va errno + will be set to + .Er ENOENT . .Ss "TCP Keep-Alive" Since TCP determines whether a remote peer is no longer reachable by timing out waiting for acknowledgements, a host that never sends any new data may never notice a peer that has gone away. While consumers can avoid this problem by sending their own periodic heartbeat