Re: Window Scale Option broken in 2.2.x

From: bert hubert (ahu@ds9a.nl)
Date: Fri Oct 06 2000 - 20:55:25 EDT

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    On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 02:53:27AM +0200, bert hubert wrote:
    > On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 07:56:15PM -0400, Lawrence MacIntyre wrote:
    > > Hi:
    > >
    > > The window scale option doesn't appear to work in 2.2.16, 2.2.17, and
    > > 2.2.18. I've got an old 2.2.5 machine and it doesn't work either. Is
    > > this supposed to work? There is code in the kernel to do the window
    > > scale option, but it always sends a 0 value. It does, however, work
    > > correctly in 2.4.0-test9-pre9. I have tested it using ttcp -r -s
    > > -b131072 (the -b flag does a setsockopt to increase the receive buffer,
    > > and therefore the window size).
    > >
    > > p.s. Yes, /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling is 1
    >
    > Userspace programs do need to suggest to the kernel that they want a larger
    > window - this is documented somewhere.

    Don't mind me, I'm donning my brown paper bag. 

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