Re: Linux v2.6.16-rc6

Michal Feix
2006-03-12T10:58:14Z

> Once upon a time, David S. Miller <davem <at> davemloft.net> said:
> >> TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 82.113.55.2:11759/50967 shrinks window
> >> 148470938:148470943. Repaired.
> >
> >It is a problem with the remote TCP implementation, it is
> >illegally advertising a smaller window that it previously
> >did.
>
> Is this something that should be logged though? I get these messages
> all the time on my mirror server. It isn't like I can do anything about
> it. If Linux is generous in what it accepts and can handle it, what is
> the logged error for?

If you do not want to see these messages, simply set TCP_DEBUG to 0 in
include/net/tcp.h. Or simply stop logging everything on level debug, which is
worse as it affects all debug kernel output.

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Michal Feix