From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
Subject: Re: 2.6.17 regression: Very slow net transfer from some hosts
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 16:54:35 -0400
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This is almost certainly due to a buggy firewall that doesn't understand 
TCP window scaling.  I've usually seen this in the past with OpenBSD 
firewalls.  Do you have one of these in your path?

Thanks,
   -John