On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, David S. Miller wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 17:55:12 -0400 (EDT) > John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu> wrote: > > > Another bit to addr to the firewall / window scale mess: I remember from > > a while ago that the Cisco PIX firewalls would not allow a window scale of > > greater than 8. I don't know if they've fixed this or not. It seems > > like some sort of arbitrary limit. > > In what manner did it deal with > 8 window scales? By rewriting the option > or deleting the option entirely from the SYN or SYN+ACK packets? I don't recall. It was not as ugly as changing the option value. It may have just sent a RST. -John - : 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
