Defines the maximum value of the TCP congestion window (cwnd) in bytes.
For more information on the TCP congestion window, refer to RFC 1122 and RFC 2581.
1,048,576
128 to 1,073,741,824
Yes
Even if an application uses setsockopt(3XNET) to change the window size to a value higher than tcp_cwnd_max, the actual window used can never grow beyond tcp_cwnd_max. Thus, tcp_max_buf should be greater than tcp_cwnd_max.
Unstable