Re: 2.6.17: networking bug??

[Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, John Heffner wrote:
> > The best thing you can do is try to find this broken box and inform its owner
> > that it needs to be fixed.  (If you can find out what it is, I'd be interested
> > to know.)  In the meantime, disabling window scaling will work around the
> > problem for you.
>
> Well, arguably, we shouldn't necessarily have defaults that use window 
> scaling, or we should have ways to recognize automatically when it 
> doesn't work (which may not be possible).
>
> It's not like there aren't broken boxes out there, and it might be better 
> to make the default buffer sizes just be low enough that window scaling 
> simply isn't an issue.
>
> I suspect that the people who really want/need window scaling know about 
> it, and could be assumed to know enough to raise their limits, no?

Agreed.  It's taken me over a month here to realize that the particular
webserver in question (www.everymac.com) wasn't "dead", but merely being
blocked by my 2.6.17 kernel.  All was fine with 2.6.16, as I discovered today.

I wonder how many other "dead sites" there are out there,
that will be shut off from people when they "upgrade" to 2.6.17 ?

I'm a kernel hacker.  Most users of 2.6.17 will not be.
The default should be something that works "by default".

Cheers
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