> Analysis:
> This is probably a bug in the MacOS, as well as in Linux, and the
> presence of both is necessary to cause the effect. I believe it can be
I would imagine its a bug in some mangling proxy in the middle. MacOS is
mentat streams which while not reknowned for its behaviour certainly isnt
normally in the complete idiot category
> systems, in the following manner. The workaround involves NOT sending more
> than one TCP responses in a row which advertise a zero receive window,
Thats not legal. RFC's are explicit about when you send acks
> eliminating the storm. When the receive window becomes available again, a
> single, empty TCP packet would be generated advertising the new window
> size; this I believe is already present.
This packet is unreliable so the acks must happen.
>
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