[arch] Kernel 2.6.17 and TCP window scaling

Jose M. Prieto jmprieto at gmx.net
Sat Sep 9 07:54:46 EDT 2006


El Viernes, 8 de Septiembre de 2006 23:11, Jose M. Prieto escribió:
> After booting with an older kernel and doing some googling (without any
> network issue) I found the source of the problem [1]. A change in the way
> the kernel calculates TCP buffer sizes has caused it to use TCP window
> scaling by default under some circumstances. Window scaling is an old

This is not precise, it also used window scaling before. It just uses a 
greater scale factor now.



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