Re: [PATCH] fix tcp_default_win_scale.

[David Ford <david+challenge-response@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

By recruiting someone with enough of a technology clue to scroll to the 
bottom of the message and read: "To unsubscribe from ...."
:P

David
p.s. and I wonder why I have so little faith in marketing and HR.

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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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