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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Noritoshi Demizu <demizu@dd.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Ion Badulescu <lists@limebrokerage.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible BUG in IPv4 TCP window handling, all recent 2.4.x/2.6.x kernels
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:20:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050901222032.5cc649c0@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050902.135138.38716488.Noritoshi@Demizu.ORG>

On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 13:51:38 +0900 (JST)
Noritoshi Demizu <demizu@dd.iij4u.or.jp> wrote:

> Below may not be directly related to the cause of the problem.
> But I think some window sizes in your mail need to be re-evaluated.
> 
> > 11:29:54.961998 10.2.20.246.33060 > 10.2.224.182.8700: S 1972343059:1972343059(0) win 5840 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 225781001 0,nop,wscale 2> (DF)
> > 11:29:54.983334 10.2.224.182.8700 > 10.2.20.246.33060: S 2770690746:2770690746(0) ack 1972343060 win 33304 <nop,nop,timestamp 99687881 225781001,mss 1460,nop,wscale 1,nop,nop,sackOK> (DF)
> 
> Since the TCP Window Scale options are exchanged,
> the window size field contains shifted value except SYNs.

Be careful, tcpdump may be tracking the window scale and reporting
scaled values.  Seems unlikely since with a window scale of 2, and odd
window size would be impossible.  Also, is there by any chance a busted
firewall in the way (like OpenBSD) that corrupts window scaling. 

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-02  5:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-01 22:30 Possible BUG in IPv4 TCP window handling, all recent 2.4.x/2.6.x kernels Ion Badulescu
2005-09-01 22:43 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-01 22:49   ` Jesper Juhl
2005-09-01 22:53     ` David S. Miller
2005-09-01 22:53   ` Ion Badulescu
2005-09-01 23:37     ` Jesper Juhl
2005-09-02  2:51     ` John Heffner
2005-09-02  6:28       ` David S. Miller
2005-09-02 14:05         ` lists
2005-09-02 14:10           ` John Heffner
2005-09-02 14:33             ` lists
2005-09-02 14:48               ` John Heffner
2005-09-02 15:43                 ` Ion Badulescu
2005-09-02 13:02       ` Guillaume Autran
2005-09-02 13:48         ` Ion Badulescu
2005-09-02 13:52         ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2005-09-02 14:11           ` John Heffner
2005-09-02 13:48       ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2005-09-02 14:16         ` John Heffner
2005-09-02 15:11           ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2005-09-02 18:36     ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2005-09-02 20:57       ` Ion Badulescu
2005-09-02 21:18         ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2005-09-02 23:09           ` Ion Badulescu
2005-09-28 16:31       ` Ion Badulescu
2005-09-29 15:17         ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2005-09-29 15:34           ` Guillaume Autran
2005-09-29 16:04           ` John Heffner
2005-09-29 18:16             ` David S. Miller
2005-09-30  0:29           ` David S. Miller
2005-09-02  4:51 ` Noritoshi Demizu
2005-09-02  5:20   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2005-09-02  5:45     ` Noritoshi Demizu
2005-09-02  6:11       ` Noritoshi Demizu
2005-09-02 12:11         ` Ion Badulescu

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