Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 10 Dec 1999 03:05:08 -0800 | | From | "David S. Miller" <> | | Subject | Re: Windows 9x and RFC1323 |
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Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 02:58:48 -0800 From: "Jeffrey B. Siegal" <jbs@quiotix.com>
If so, fine. I can see the justification for it, but its a dangerous decision that should be made carefully.
It's not dangerous, and it's a pretty simple decision. Turning it off will have a domino result:
1) Linux turns it off by default 2) Nobody except rare souls who turn it on will find problems 3) Vendors of buggy systems won't get any problem reports about their SACK implementation 4) SACK may as well have not been created in the first place
And the fact that absolutely _nobody_ has provided any tcpdump traces of failed or misbehaving connections keeps me from even knowing if SACK is really the core problem. I can't even know whether Linux is the real culprit or not without this debugging information.
Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com
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