linux-kernel - Re: TCP stack sometimes loses ACKs ... or something

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Message-Id: <20061106.230755.38710002.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:07:55 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	neilb@...e.de
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP stack sometimes loses ACKs ... or something

Window scaling... there is some intermediate device which is
trying to prevent "out of window" segments from passing through,
but it is not taking the negotiated window scale into account.
So it thinks that segments are outside of the window, when they
are not.
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