Netdev people, I think this thread on lkml is worthy of your attention, this
is one message in it.
The summary is that recent mm kernels cannot connect to some servers, and
that the sysctl below solves it.
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:47:57 +0200 (CEST)
From: Debi Janos <debi.janos@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 2.6.7-mm1 - 2.6.7-mm4 weird http behavior
To: bert hubert <ahu@xxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
bert hubert <ahu@xxxxxxx> ?rta:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 08:04:46PM +0200, Debi Janos wrote:
> > bert hubert <ahu@xxxxxxx> ?rta:
> Suggestions:
> 1) turn off timestamps (echo 0 >
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps)
> 2) set your MTU to 1000 or so (ifconfig eth0 mtu 1000)
>
> And try again.
>
> Interesting case!
problem workarounded:
sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_moderate_rcvbuf=0
sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_default_win_scale=0
Thanks.
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