From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262211AbVFSAXn (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Jun 2005 20:23:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262213AbVFSAXm (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Jun 2005 20:23:42 -0400 Received: from linuxwireless.org.ve.carpathiahost.net ([66.117.45.234]:25043 "EHLO linuxwireless.org.ve.carpathiahost.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262211AbVFSAXZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Jun 2005 20:23:25 -0400 Message-ID: <42B4ACB1.7030807@linuxwireless.org> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 18:22:25 -0500 From: Alejandro Bonilla User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Debian/1.7.8-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lars Roland CC: Lincoln Dale , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Christian Kujau , Linux-Kernel Subject: Re: tg3 in 2.6.12-rc6 and Cisco PIX SMTP fixup References: <001f01c57341$1802c3b0$600cc60a@amer.sykes.com> <200506171352.j5HDqpE8006543@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <42B353B7.4070503@cisco.com> <4ad99e05050617222966671e4f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ad99e05050617222966671e4f@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Lars Roland wrote: >On 6/18/05, Lincoln Dale wrote: > > >>there _was_ a bug in the Cisco PIX whereby it cleared TCP window-scaling >>bits. >>this can be tracked through cisco bug-id CSCdy29514. >> >>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..). >> >> > >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. > > 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 > > >Regards. > >Lars Roland > >