Re: 2.6.7-mm1 - 2.6.7-mm4 weird http behavior

From: David S. Miller
Date: Tue Jun 29 2004 - 16:54:02 EST


On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:36:45 -0400 (EDT)
John Heffner <jheffner@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sigh. I ran in to this problem a year or so ago and it was a broken
> firewall that was mangling the TCP window scale option. I think the
> firewall was an OpenBSD machine, and I was told the problem went away with
> an upgrade. I'm curious what they're running here.
>
> The boundary 3 is special because it causes SWS avoidance to break.

Interesting data-point, thanks John.

Can someone go figure out what packages.gentoo.org is using
as a firewall/router?
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