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DateTue, 6 Jul 2004 13:35:59 -0700
From"David S. Miller" <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix tcp_default_win_scale.
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 13:36:41 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:

> > Ok, this is a possibility.  And why it breaks is that if the ACK
> > for the SYN+ACK comes back, the SYN+ACK sender can only assume
> > that the window scale was accepted.
> > 
> > Stephen, do you have a trace showing exactly this?
> 
> No, I don't have a br0ken firewall here.  I can get out fine.
> When I setup with same kernel as packages.gentoo.org, it works fine as well.

Therefore we do not know which of the following two it really is:

1) window scale option being stripped from SYN+ACK

2) non-zero window option being patched into a zero window
   scale option

The trace Bert Hubert will get with Alessandro will give us the
information we need.
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