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Behaviour of TCP setting ForceWS (Windows)

The TCP window scale option increases the maximum receive window size from 64 KiB to ~1 GiB. The option is necessary for high-speed, high-latency transmissions - when the path's bandwidth-delay ...
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Testing mail-server with mxtoolbox -- SMTP connection time over 5 seconds?

all I see in the log on the server-side is one second: The log only begins once the TCP connection has been made – the SMTP service remains unaware of it while the OS is doing the handshake. (...
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Do TCP sequence numbers increase by the Ethernet frame size, or tcp payload size?

Does this mean literally the entire Ethernet frame size (including IP header), or just the TCP payload size? TCP is not aware of the Ethernet frame. Nor need there be an Ethernet frame - and the TCP ...
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