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From: "Taylor, Grant" <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>
Subject: Re: Linux forwarding Win XP hosts VERY slowly
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 02:14:11 -0500
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> have you tried with a proper web browser, such as firefox ? IE is known
> as not respecting the RFC for TCP and sending the HTTP request as data
> in the first "SYN" packet (which is only recognised by IIS, of course)
> so as to 'make' IE appear faster than it really is..

Would it be possible / likely / practical to mangle such traffic to remove any data from the payload of the SYN packet?  Ultimately creating a cleaner connection to the server and causing IE to timeout on the packet and resend it?

> guess it's one more example of how badly Windows' TCP/IP stack is broken
> is so many ways...

*nod*



Grant. . . .