Re: Re[3]: tcp_window_scaling degrades performance

From: David S. Miller
Date: Mon Jul 19 2004 - 21:23:29 EST


On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:01:57 +0200
Maciej Soltysiak <solt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I seem to have isolated the changeset that causes my machines to have
> very slow throughput, even as low as 2kB/s when tcp_window_scaling is
> enabled.

The change is valid, firewalls are just corrupting the connection
when window scaling is in use which is a valid RFC standard
TCP feature.

Please, get the firewall fixed.
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