Re: [PATCH] fix tcp_default_win_scale.

[Redeeman <lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 11:47 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Recent TCP changes exposed the problem that there ar lots of really broken 
> firewalls 
> that strip or alter TCP options.
> When the options are modified TCP gets busted now.  The problem is that when
> we propose window scaling, we expect that the other side receives the same 
> initial
> SYN request that we sent.  If there is corrupting firewalls that strip it then
> the window we send is not correctly scaled; so the other side thinks there is 
> not
> enough space to send.
> 
> I propose that the following that will avoid sending window scaling that
> is big enough to break in these cases unless the tcp_rmem has been increased.
> It will keep default configuration from blowing in a corrupt world.
so this should fix the issues? can you also tell me why this suddenly happend? 
that would make me a real happy man

> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>

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