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[Matt Selsky]

Quoting Gregory Colpart <reg at evolix.fr>:

> Some friends have the same problem but I find why :-)
>
> There is a broken router between me and "coyote.horde.org" which
> breaks connections with particular TCP window scaling[1]. Systems
> with Linux kernel >= 2.6.17 are particularly affected[2].
>
> Fast work around is :
>  echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_default_win_scale
>
>
> [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/92727/
> [2] http://kerneltrap.org/node/6723

On my Fedora Core 4 box (I finally got the new 2.6.17 kernel
tonight), I needed to do the following instead:

echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling

See also:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114480196529379&w=2


-- 
Matt