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MOD_CC(4)	       FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual		     MOD_CC(4)

NAME
     mod_cc -- Modular congestion control

DESCRIPTION
     The modular congestion control framework allows the TCP implementation to
     dynamically change	the congestion control algorithm used by new and
     existing connections.  Algorithms are identified by a unique ascii(7)
     name.  Algorithm modules can be compiled into the kernel or loaded	as
     kernel modules using the kld(4) facility.

     The default algorithm is NewReno, and all connections use the default
     unless explicitly overridden using	the TCP_CONGESTION socket option (see
     tcp(4) for	details).  The default can be changed using a sysctl(3)	MIB
     variable detailed in the MIB Variables section below.

MIB Variables
     The framework exposes the following variables in the net.inet.tcp.cc
     branch of the sysctl(3) MIB:

     available	Read-only list of currently available congestion control algo-
		rithms by name.

     algorithm	Returns	the current default congestion control algorithm when
		read, and changes the default when set.	 When attempting to
		change the default algorithm, this variable should be set to
		one of the names listed	by the net.inet.tcp.cc.available MIB
		variable.

SEE ALSO
     cc_chd(4),	cc_cubic(4), cc_hd(4), cc_htcp(4), cc_newreno(4), cc_vegas(4),
     tcp(4), mod_cc(9)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
     Development and testing of	this software were made	possible in part by
     grants from the FreeBSD Foundation	and Cisco University Research Program
     Fund at Community Foundation Silicon Valley.

HISTORY
     The mod_cc	modular	congestion control framework first appeared in
     FreeBSD 9.0.

     The framework was first released in 2007 by James Healy and Lawrence
     Stewart whilst working on the NewTCP research project at Swinburne	Uni-
     versity of	Technology's Centre for	Advanced Internet Architectures, Mel-
     bourne, Australia,	which was made possible	in part	by a grant from	the
     Cisco University Research Program Fund at Community Foundation Silicon
     Valley.  More details are available at:

     http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/newtcp/

AUTHORS
     The mod_cc	facility was written by	Lawrence Stewart
     <lstewart@FreeBSD.org>, James Healy <jimmy@deefa.com> and David Hayes
     <david.hayes@ieee.org>.

     This manual page was written by David Hayes <david.hayes@ieee.org>	and
     Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@FreeBSD.org>.

FreeBSD	11.1		      September	15, 2011		  FreeBSD 11.1

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