On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 11:47 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Recent TCP changes exposed the problem that there ar lots of really broken firewalls > that strip or alter TCP options. > When the options are modified TCP gets busted now. The problem is that when > we propose window scaling, we expect that the other side receives the same initial > SYN request that we sent. If there is corrupting firewalls that strip it then > the window we send is not correctly scaled; so the other side thinks there is not > enough space to send. > > 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. so this should fix the issues? can you also tell me why this suddenly happend? that would make me a real happy man > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - : 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
