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TCP window scaling and broken routers

TCP window scaling and broken routers

Posted Feb 7, 2008 21:12 UTC (Thu) by shemminger (subscriber, #5739)
In reply to: TCP window scaling and broken routers by schabi
Parent article: TCP window scaling and broken routers

The problem is firewall's that want to enforce window sizes but are too stupid and try to do
this without tracking the state of window scaling of the connection.

I will pick out OpenBSD as particularly broken in that regard, and they haven't fixed it.


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