Subject: Re: Bug#267342: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686-smp: TCP/IP strangeness in 2.6.8

From: "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:05:32 -0700

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:14:58 -0700
Nivedita Singhvi <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Could it be possible OpenBSD doesn't properly deal with the tcp window
> > scaling changes in 2.6.8? (http://lwn.net/Articles/92727/)
> 
> Unless there is present in the path one of those broken
> routers (mangling the window scale option), it's likely
> something else.

It was found to in fact be OpenBSD, this bug has been well known
for some time too.  See followups made in this thread.