[arch] Kernel 2.6.17 and TCP window scaling

[Benoit Myard]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 08:22:40PM +0200, Jose M. Prieto wrote:
> Any more opinions on this?
> Should Arch provide a workaround or not? And if yes, which one?

I know I already gave my opinion, but I just want to make things clearer.

Playing with tcp_rmen is a *bad* idea since the problem actualy still exists.
It's barely a hack which is often not enough. If Arch wants to provide a
workaround, I think it must be to disable TCP Window Scaling:

  echo "net.ipv4.tcp_default_win_scale = 0" >> /etc/sysctl.conf

-- 
Benoit Myard <mb at taudis.fr> [0x3EEC1AEC]
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