On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:36:45 -0400 (EDT) John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu> wrote: > Sigh. I ran in to this problem a year or so ago and it was a broken > firewall that was mangling the TCP window scale option. I think the > firewall was an OpenBSD machine, and I was told the problem went away with > an upgrade. I'm curious what they're running here. > > The boundary 3 is special because it causes SWS avoidance to break. Interesting data-point, thanks John. Can someone go figure out what packages.gentoo.org is using as a firewall/router? - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html