From: John Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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