Posted November 29th, 2005 @ 06:34am by Erik J. Barzeski
From Apple:
The installer increases the default values for the size of the TCP send and receive buffers. With larger buffers more data can be in transit at once. A startup configuration file is also updated so that these changes will persist across restarts.
I haven't checked speeds before and after, but I'm surprised the installer doesn't demand a restart. 😛
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Posted 29 Nov 2005 at 7:50am #
I was surprised the installer needed no Admin password and was able to write a "root/wheel" file into /etc/
That's really amazing.
Posted 29 Nov 2005 at 3:59pm #
Kind of makes you wonder if someone could write malware that way...repackage the installer to set the values to 0 or something.
The person wouldn't be able to get online, and unless you know to go into the TCP config file, it would likely require a clean install to solve.
I wish I knew how to do this, I'm interested to see if it actually works..
Any idea why doesn't it require an admin password?
Posted 29 Nov 2005 at 6:28pm #
Some information from XLR8YourMac.
Posted 30 Nov 2005 at 1:21am #
Thanks, Erik.
Anyone with information about the installer or any of that, though?