TCP Tuning Guide

Version 1.0 - Last published May 7, 2008
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Mac OSX Tuning
Mac OSX tuning is similar to FreeBSD. 
sysctl -w kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=16777216

Apple also provides a Broadband Tuner patch that does a less agressive version of this for Mac OS X 10.4 and above.

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