Re: tcp_timestamps problems with BSD ? (2.2.14,2.2.16)

From: Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
Date: Thu Jun 08 2000 - 14:06:23 EST


In article <cistron.Pine.LNX.4.21.0006081919090.11171-100000@sjoerd.sjoerdnet>,
 <iafilius@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>I found some problem with loading some URL's on internet, some part loads
>terrible slow (about 15 minutes), while it workes fine with al those M$
>boxes around me (at work ...).

Seen that too.

>After some research i found that disabling the tcp_timestamps (in
>/proc) "solved" the problem.

Known "problem", I think.

>I don't know if it is a linux issue or a remote os issue.

It is a remote OS issue.

>If i found correctly the "problem" sites are running BSD.

Nope... the problem sites are running Windows.

>For those who want to know more, just visit:
>http://www.detelefoongids.nl/ (the middle fill-in window is the problem)

This is a Micro$soft box. "Microsoft-IIS/4.0"

>http://www.domain-registry.nl/ (didn't test myself, but told to)

That site works fine, I visit it regulary from my Linux box. It runs
some flavor of Unix [Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) ]

>Can someone enlighten me about the Linux or BSD issue?

I also had to disable TCP timestamp and sliding window on our SMTP,
POP3, proxy and web servers to make sure that Windows boxes can
connect without problems.

Mike.

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