From: "Taylor, Grant" <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Linux forwarding Win XP hosts VERY slowly
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 02:14:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4275D343.1030406@riverviewtech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4275D19B.7030409@imag.fr>
> have you tried with a proper web browser, such as firefox ? IE is known
> as not respecting the RFC for TCP and sending the HTTP request as data
> in the first "SYN" packet (which is only recognised by IIS, of course)
> so as to 'make' IE appear faster than it really is..
Would it be possible / likely / practical to mangle such traffic to remove any data from the payload of the SYN packet? Ultimately creating a cleaner connection to the server and causing IE to timeout on the packet and resend it?
> guess it's one more example of how badly Windows' TCP/IP stack is broken
> is so many ways...
*nod*
Grant. . . .
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-30 17:41 Linux forwarding Win XP hosts VERY slowly Dave Cinege
2005-04-30 23:06 ` Taylor, Grant
2005-05-01 4:10 ` Alistair Tonner
2005-05-02 7:07 ` Raphael Jacquot
2005-05-02 7:14 ` Taylor, Grant [this message]
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2005-05-01 12:27 itd.nam
2005-05-02 0:52 Dave Cinege
2005-05-02 17:20 Dave Cinege
2005-05-02 17:50 Dave Cinege
2005-05-02 20:03 ` Taylor, Grant
2005-05-02 20:47 ` Mogens Valentin
2005-05-02 21:29 Dave Cinege
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