Re: NOPs in TCP traffic

[Gary Peck <gbpeck sbcglobal net>]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 12:36:44PM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 01:30:01PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > ISP problem; there is at least one brand of traffic shaper that is
> > known to corrupt tcp streams like this (basically the in between box
> > whacks the scaling factor to 0 without adjusting the rest of the tcp
> > stream, or so the current theory goes)
> 
> So the best thing to do is to wait until the problem has been pinned
> down and the traffic shaper manufacturer named?
> 
> Like Andy, I have been putting off the call to NTL, because I know
> exactly how that will go.

Would this be the same problem as
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126626? If so, it's
definitely a change that happened in the default kernel config within
the last month. Also, if it helps, I'm connecting to Earthlink through
Time Warner Cable in New York (and behind a Belkin home router) when I
see this problem.

gary