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		kuschku on July 20, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TCP BBR congestion control comes to GCP So, what would be required to use this outside of GCP? All documentation on BBR only discusses GCP.

est on July 21, 2017 [–]

1. install 4.10+ kernel

2. echo "bbr" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_congestion_control

3. save it to sysctl.conf

4. restart and you are done.

MertsA on July 21, 2017 | [–]

> echo "bbr" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_congestion_control

[...]

> restart and you are done.

You only need one or the other. Also, you could just reload your sysctl.conf instead.

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