Messages in this thread | | | From | (Linus Torvalds) | Subject | Re: TCP bug? hanging outgoing connections in 2.2.14 | Date | 17 Feb 2000 10:24:40 -0800 |
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In article <m33dqrc3c7.fsf@fred.muc.de>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote: > >Linux's small window handling in TCP could be certainly improved, although >using a 4096 window on the internet looks rather bogus too.
Small windows are (or at least were) pretty common on specialized hardware with no real full TCP/IP stack. There was one early HP printer that had a very stupid TCP stack, and I think it hardcoded its window to something like a kilobyte or two.
I wouldn't be surprised if the same was true on some of the embedded stuff. Think cell-phones that can do POP3. Maybe not today, but never dismiss the lure of the internet and the stupidity of devices ;)
Linus
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