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

[David S. Miller]

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:04:52 +0200
Debi Janos <debi.janos@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 2004-06-29, k keltezéssel 23:36-kor John Heffner ezt írta:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> >   -John
> 
> hmm. interesting. my server sits behind an openbsd packet filter... , but the gentoo's machines uses iptables firewall...

Sounds like the firewall at your end is what might be causing the
problems.

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