* Chris Wedgwood said:
> > I suggest that tcp_sack be turned off by default unless there is
> > some way to detect and work around broken implementations on the
> > other of a connection.
>=20
> Do you know for sure it broken and not something else going on? I
In my experience it was the pair of options: sack and window scaling, that
caused the problems when turned on.
> have SACK enabled on machines that make hundred if not thousands of
> connections to both solaris and windows machines every day... if
> there are problems, I've not seen them -- but then again, I'm
> certainly not looking either.
If I'm not mistaken, most of my customers reporting the problem were using
PPP connection to their ISP which used the Portmaster hardware. Our 3Com
RAS1500 connections never had those problems.
marek
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