Bug#407735: 2.6.18-3-686 tcp_window_scaling serious problem

[prosolutions@gmx.net]

> 
> tags 407735 wontfix
> severity 407735 minor
> thanks
> 
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 01:13:43PM -0800, prosolutions@gmx.net wrote:
> > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling is set to "1" be default in this
> > kernel.  But there is a serious problem with this which causes severe
> > connection problems for some connections.  The user will experience this
> > as sites that fail to load, or begin to load then abruptly stop and just
> > hang while loading.
> 
> There is a broken router or packet filter between the two machines.
> 
> > I thought that this problem no longer existed as of 2.6.18 kernels, but
> > I can confirm this is happening again with this fresh debian
> > linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 kernel in unstable.
> 
> This is a bug in your infrastructure, not the linux kernel.


Dismissing it as a "bug" in "my" infrastructure is just plain wrong.  It
has nothing to do with "my" infrastructure.  30 percent or more of the
sites on the Internet are affected by this problem.  This is a severe
bug.  There is nothing I can do to change the infrastructure sitting
around the world between me and the 30 percent of the sites where this
problem manifests consistently.  If you want to track down all the
colo/networking facilities around the globe through which this "bug"
manifests.  In the meantime, I cannot access sites like Slashdot and
hundreds of others and this has nothing to do with any network I'm on
(the problem is identical on the two totally different consumer broadband
networks in Silicon Valley which I used).