Bug#269604: Problems with some firewalls
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:55:50PM +0200, Magnus Ekdahl wrote:
> Subject: Problems with some firewalls
> Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7
> Version: 2.6.8-2
> Severity: normal
>
> Somewhere after the 18th of august I got problems downloading my mail from
> pophost.ludd.luth.se. One of the administrators said that one possible
> reason for this is that Linux can't handle that their firewall won't strip
> TCP packages initially. As I understand him this should not be specific to
> ludd, but should apply to other sites too for newer 2.6 kernels.
Can you check whether an
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_default_win_scale
makes the problem go away?
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