Re: Connection reset by peer - TCP window size oddity ?

From: Graham Murray
Date: Mon Oct 03 2005 - 09:44:34 EST


Martin Drallew <m.drallew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> A tcpdump follows and, unless I'm misunderstanding the output (quite
> possible) it looks like the kernel is sending outside of the peer's
> TCP window, to which the peer responds by resetting the connection.

I think that you have overlooked one detail in the output. Both
systems have declared window scaling of 2, so when otter sets the
window size of 1984 in the packet it is actually advertising a window
of 7936, which you are not exceeding. You do not say what type of
system otter is (or what OS it is running), so one explanation is that
otter has just mirrored your 'wscale 2' in its SYN-ACK without
actually meaning it.
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