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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:51:59 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: jheffner@....edu Cc: coroberti@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, greearb@...delatech.com, moser.michael@...il.com Subject: Re: TCP connection stops after high load. From: John Heffner <jheffner@....edu> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:47:58 -0400 > My only reservation in submitting this to -stable is that it will in > many cases increase the default tcp_mem values, which in turn can > increase the default tcp_rmem values, and therefore the window scale. > There will be some set of people with broken firewalls who trigger that > problem for the first time by upgrading along the stable branch. While > it's not our fault, it could cause some complaints... It is a very valid concern. However this is fixing a problem where we are in the wrong, whereas the firewall issues are external and should not block us from being able to fix our own bugs :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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