Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list netdev); Tue, 06 Jul 2004 18:32:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailer2.psc.edu (mailer2.psc.edu [128.182.66.106]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with SMTP id i671WCgi029567 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 18:32:12 -0700 Received: from dexter.psc.edu (dexter.psc.edu [128.182.61.232]) by mailer2.psc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.5) with ESMTP id i671WABh021226 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 6 Jul 2004 21:32:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dexter.psc.edu (dexter.psc.edu [128.182.61.232]) by dexter.psc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.5) with ESMTP id i671W9p3013683; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 21:32:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 21:32:09 -0400 (EDT) From: John Heffner To: "David S. Miller" cc: , , Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix tcp_default_win_scale. In-Reply-To: <20040706155013.32af8e13.davem@redhat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.70, clamav-milter version 0.70j X-archive-position: 6715 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: jheffner@psc.edu Precedence: bulk X-list: netdev Content-Length: 653 Lines: 18 On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, David S. Miller wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 17:55:12 -0400 (EDT) > John Heffner wrote: > > > Another bit to addr to the firewall / window scale mess: I remember from > > a while ago that the Cisco PIX firewalls would not allow a window scale of > > greater than 8. I don't know if they've fixed this or not. It seems > > like some sort of arbitrary limit. > > In what manner did it deal with > 8 window scales? By rewriting the option > or deleting the option entirely from the SYN or SYN+ACK packets? I don't recall. It was not as ugly as changing the option value. It may have just sent a RST. -John