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.

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.

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