Re: [PATCH] fix tcp_default_win_scale.

[David Ford <david+challenge-response@blue-labs.org>]

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David
p.s. and I wonder why I have so little faith in marketing and HR.

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:shemminger@osdl.org]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 1:37 PM
>To: David S. Miller
>Cc: jamie@shareable.org; netdev@oss.sgi.com; linux-net@vger.kernel.org;
>linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix tcp_default_win_scale.
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>On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 13:28:22 -0700
>"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:
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>>On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 13:05:49 -0700
>>Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 20:40:34 +0100
>>>Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> wrote:
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>>>>Are you saying there are broken firewalls which strip TCP options in
>>>>one direction only?
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>>>It appears so.
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>>Ok, this is a possibility.  And why it breaks is that if the ACK
>>for the SYN+ACK comes back, the SYN+ACK sender can only assume
>>that the window scale was accepted.
>>
>>Stephen, do you have a trace showing exactly this?
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>No, I don't have a br0ken firewall here.  I can get out fine.
>When I setup with same kernel as packages.gentoo.org, it works fine as well.
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