Re: tg3 in 2.6.12-rc6 and Cisco PIX SMTP fixup

[Alejandro Bonilla <abonilla@linuxwireless.org>]

Lars Roland wrote:

>On 6/18/05, Lincoln Dale <ltd@cisco.com> wrote:
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>>there _was_ a bug in the Cisco PIX whereby it cleared TCP window-scaling
>>bits.
>>this can be tracked through cisco bug-id CSCdy29514.
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>>this was fixed back in August 2002 with the fix incorporated into PIX
>>software releases 6.1.5 and 6.2.3 and later.
>>any 'recent' (i.e. last 2.5 years) releases don't have this problem.
>>(or, at least, we don't think so..).
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>I have identified two firewalls with this problem and both of then are
>running PIX software version 6.3.4 - I have not yet managed to
>persuade there respective admins to update to 7.0.1 (or 6.3.4.115) -
>so until then I am just turning window-scaling off.
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If you have a Cisco contract, you need to make sure that your account 
manager will allow the upgrades.

But as I said before, this was fixed long time ago.

I hope you can upgrade soon.

.Alejandro

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>Regards.
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>Lars Roland
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