Re: netfilter Digest, Vol 10, Issue 4

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> > 1) Forwarded traffic (most notably web) is VERY slow with XP clients.
>
> have you tried with a proper web browser, such as firefox ? IE is known
> as not respecting the RFC for TCP and sending the HTTP request as data
> in the first "SYN" packet (which is only recognised by IIS, of course)
> so as to 'make' IE appear faster than it really is..

Yes. In my last example of the slow browing to an attached linksys, I was 
using Firefox on XP. Previously I had thought it was all IE, but it's not.

Dave




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