On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 20:58:56 +0200 Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> wrote: > On Tue, 2004-07-06 11:47:41 -0700, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> > wrote in message <20040706114741.1bf98bbe@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net>: > > > I propose that the following that will avoid sending window scaling that > > is big enough to break in these cases unless the tcp_rmem has been increased. > > It will keep default configuration from blowing in a corrupt world. > > I'm not sure if this is the right way to react. I'd think it's okay to > give the user the possibility to scale the window so that it works with > his b0rk3d firewall, but default behavior should be to do whatever the > protocol dictates/allows. I totally agree, and that's why the sysctl is there for people to tweak as they desire. Jan, any particular reason you removed so much stuff (in particular netdev@oss.sgi.com) from the CC: list in your posting here? - : 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
