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
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