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-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:shemminger@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 1:37 PM
To: David S. Miller
Cc: jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx; linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix tcp_default_win_scale.
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 13:28:22 -0700
"David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 13:05:49 -0700
> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 20:40:34 +0100
> > Jamie Lokier <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Are you saying there are broken firewalls which strip TCP options in
> > > one direction only?
> >
> > It appears so.
>
> Ok, this is a possibility. And why it breaks is that if the ACK
> for the SYN+ACK comes back, the SYN+ACK sender can only assume
> that the window scale was accepted.
>
> Stephen, do you have a trace showing exactly this?
No, I don't have a br0ken firewall here. I can get out fine.
When I setup with same kernel as packages.gentoo.org, it works fine as well.
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