From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: CaT Subject: Re: 2.6.17.1: fails to fully get webpage Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:09:23 +1000 Message-ID: <20060629030923.GI2149@zip.com.au> References: <20060629015915.GH2149@zip.com.au> <20060628.194627.74748190.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from nessie.weebeastie.net ([220.233.7.36]:51727 "EHLO bunyip.lochness.weebeastie.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751351AbWF2DIP (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:08:15 -0400 To: David Miller Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060628.194627.74748190.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 07:46:27PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: CaT > 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. Yup. Must've. Just tried it now and setting tcp_window_scaling to 0 makes the site load. Sorry about that. Looks like I'll have to remember to make sure that gets set to zero on any servers I wind up having to upgrade to 2.6.17 and beyond. Bugger. :/ -- "To the extent that we overreact, we proffer the terrorists the greatest tribute." - High Court Judge Michael Kirby