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Re: Known problems with TCP window size on 2.6.7?

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Known problems with TCP window size on 2.6.7?
From: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:19:07 +0200
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 02:53:56PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 22:18:30 +1000
> Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >   are there some known problems with 2.6.7 and TCP window growing up over 
> > > limits?  
> > 
> > No.
> 
> Actually Herbert, we did have a window 16-bit overflow problem in 2.6.7
> which I believe was first fixed in 2.6.8 or so.  It was fixed by this
> patch:

Thanks a lot.  Time to upgrade, then.
                                                                Petr


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