netdev - Re: TCP connection stops after high load.

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Message-Id: <20070417.125159.43010586.davem@davemloft.net>
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 :-)
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