On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:20:42 +0100 Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Heffner wrote: > > This is almost certainly due to a buggy firewall that doesn't understand > > TCP window scaling. I've usually seen this in the past with OpenBSD > > firewalls. Do you have one of these in your path? > > At home I'm behind a Linux gateway box currently running 2.6.15-rc6 - I > am connected through ethernet to that. > > At my student house I am connected wirelessly to a Linksys WRT54Gv5 > router (the model that doesnt run Linux). > > I have reproduced it at both those locations (same ISP). > > This is very familiar, and I just found the article I was thinking of: > http://lwn.net/Articles/92727/ > > I was also hit by that bug, on the same collection of websites, but that > particular problem was fixed for 2.6.8 or so. So I guess it is extremely > likely that my ISP has broken routers. nmap isn't able to identify the > OS of any ISP routers in my path. We never fixed it, its kind of hard to fix other peoples equipment ;-) > > It's a huge ISP over here, so contacting them over technical matters is > not easy... > > Thanks, > Daniel > Turn off TCP window scaling, your performance will be limited but about as good as you can get with a corrupting firewall in between. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
