4.6 AIX TCP/IP network settings

This section provides basic information about operating system tuning parameters. For more details about the recommended values listed in Table 4-3, refer to the chapter "Tuning AIX systems" in IBM WebSphere InfoCenter, which is available at the following location:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v6r1/topic/com.ibm.websphere.base.doc/info/aes/ae/Tune_AIX_systems1728.html

Table 4-3 Default tuning options

Name Initial value Recommended value
tcp_timewait 1 1
tcp_keepidle 14400 600
tcp_keepinit 150 40
tcp_keepintvl 150 10

There are many more TCP/IP settings that can be evaluated and tuned. In the next section we focus on the TCP/IP buffer size parameter.