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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Maciej Soltysiak <solt@dns.toxicfilms.tv>
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Subject: Re: Re[3]: tcp_window_scaling degrades performance
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On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:01:57 +0200
Maciej Soltysiak <solt@dns.toxicfilms.tv> wrote:

> I seem to have isolated the changeset that causes my machines to have
> very slow throughput, even as low as 2kB/s when tcp_window_scaling is
> enabled.

The change is valid, firewalls are just corrupting the connection
when window scaling is in use which is a valid RFC standard
TCP feature.

Please, get the firewall fixed.