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From: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
Subject: Re: 2.6.17 regression: Very slow net transfer from some hosts
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 20:32:12 -0400
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Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
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To: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
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Daniel Drake wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> Turn off TCP window scaling, your performance will be limited but about
>> as good as you can get with a corrupting firewall in between.

[snip]

> For anyone else interested, the ISP is NTL (UK). The fix:
> 
>     echo "4096    16384   131072 " > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem
>     echo "4096    87380   174760 " > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rmem

For the record, I think Stephen's suggested workaround is better:

echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling

It will prevent the other end of the connection from using a window 
scale, so it "fixes" both directions of the connection, not just receiving.

Thanks,
   -John