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Glossary: TCP/IP in Depth, Part 2

window scaling

Also written: Window scaling, wscale, window scale

A TCP option, announced in the SYN, that multiplies every later window from that side by 2 to the power of `wscale`. With `wscale 10`, `win 63` means 64,512 bytes.

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Related terms

windowbandwidth-delay product