On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:53:45PM +0100, Andi Kleen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > How does syncookies prevent windows from growing? > > Syncookies do not allow window scaling so you can't have any windows >64k
Then you meant not windows change, but the fact, that option is ignored as long as sack enable one? > > Most (if not all) distributions have them enabled and window growing > > works just fine. Actually I do not see any reason why connection > > establishment handshake should prevent any run-time operations at all, > > even if it was setup during handshake. > > TCP only uses options negotiated during the hand shake and syncookies > is incapable to do this. What about fixing the implementation, so that it could get into account different options too? > -Andi -- Evgeniy Polyakov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html