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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: 2.6.17.1: fails to fully get webpage
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:46:27 -0700 (PDT)
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From: CaT <cat@zip.com.au>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:59:15 +1000

> Now I found a thread about tcp window scaling affecting the loading of
> some sites but I fail to load the above site with
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_adv_win_scale set to 6 and 2 under 2.6.17.1
> whilst it works just fine with the /proc entry set to either 7, 6 or 2
> under 2.6.16.18.

You must have misread those threads.  To work around the problem,
you don't modify tcp_adv_win_scale, instead what you do is set
tcp_window_scaling to 0.