netdev - Re: TCP connection issues against Amazon S3

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Date:	Wed, 07 Jan 2015 13:33:21 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Erik Grinaker <erik@...gler.no>
Cc:	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: TCP connection issues against Amazon S3

On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 20:37 +0000, Erik Grinaker wrote:

> I agree. I have contacted Amazon about this, but am not too hopeful
> for a quick fix; they have been promising SACK-support on their
> loadbalancers since 2006, for example.
> 
> That said, since this change breaks a service as popular as S3, it
> might be worth reconsidering.
> 

Which change are you talking about ? Have you done a bisection to
clearly identify the patch exposing this sender bug ?

We are not going to stick TCP stack to 20th century and buggy peers or
middleboxes, sorry.



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