cannot access a site with kernel 2.6.7 or 2.6.8, 2.6.6 is ok
Andy Green
fedora at warmcat.com
Wed Jul 14 10:20:06 UTC 2004
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On Wednesday 14 July 2004 02:32, Mick Mearns wrote:
> Only the 2.6.6 will access http://www.carsdirect.com/
...
> What in the kernel could posibly cause this with only this site?
Tim Waugh at Redhat pointed me to this workaround:
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling
It's a problem with handling window scaling on certain routers. New kernels
now issue nonzero window scaling in the TCP packets, showing up diseased
behaviour in the previously untested routers.
- -Andy
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