Re: Windows 9x and RFC1323

Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Sun, 12 Dec 1999 23:18:33 +1300


> In my experience it was the pair of options: sack and window
> scaling, that caused the problems when turned on.

Are you sure its not broken VJ compression on some RAS device
somewhere?

> > 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.

Yes, I've hear this before -- SACK may well be broken but there are
other known problems out there that make SACK, wscale and timestamps
look broken when in fact they may not be...

-cw

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