Re: [TCP bug, regression] stuck distcc connections in latest -git

Willy Tarreau
2008-07-24T13:03:36Z

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 02:22:59AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>
> BTW, if someone can contact the Fedora folks, specifically whoever
> added that syncookies enable to /etc/sysctl.conf, and let them know
> that they've set our TCP stack back by 10 years by disabling SACK
> and timestamps, I'd really appreciate it.

But syn cookies should not trigger unless the syn backlog is full, right ?
Anyway, it would also explain why Ingo's running no default MSS (though
it should be correctly negociated by syn cookies).

willy