On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 08:31:25PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > So why do we set a larger window scale than necessary? > Is it to support (a)? It might be useful to shake out the bugs of the internet - so far I have indications that at least on residential ADSL router is responsible, it removes wscale when doing TCP portforwarding. If and when we decide to do larger rmem than now, we might have a better chance. Regards, bert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://lartc.org Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO - : 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