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Date:      Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:57:15 -0800
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
To:        Harald Schmalzbauer <h.schmalzbauer@omnilan.de>
Subject:   Re: RELENG_8 ignoring TCP window size? [Was: Re: Help for TCP understanding wanted, ACK-MSS-Window [Was: Re: best practice to watch TCP parms of established sockets]]
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:03:01AM +0100, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
> Since I could only capture "bad IP length" packets with checsum
> offloading enabled on the em, I guess it does also IP checksum
> offloading, not only TCP. I'll have to set up a port mirroring test
> bed to get the line packets. I hope I'll find the rfc1323 slowdown
> and the difference between FreeBSD clients and Windows clients. But
> at the moment I don't have spare equipment.

Worth pointing out: the version of Windows you're testing with matters
greatly.  RFC1323 isn't enabled by default in some versions of Windows,
and in other versions the default/min/max window sizes on Windows are
set absurdly small.

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc@parodius.com |
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| UNIX Systems Administrator                  Mountain View, CA, USA |
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