Re: Possible BUG in IPv4 TCP window handling, all recent 2.4.x/2.6.x kernels

From: John Heffner
Date: Fri Sep 02 2005 - 09:11:40 EST


On Sep 2, 2005, at 9:52 AM, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote:

Hello!

I experienced the very same problem but with window size going all the
way down to just a few bytes (14 bytes). dump files available upon
requests :)

I do request.

TCP is not allowed to reduce window to a value less than 2*MSS no matter
how hard network device or peer try to confuse it. :-)

You're right, that doesn't make sense...

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