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Date:      Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:20:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      AMAKAWA Shuhei <sa264@cam.ac.uk>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/34801: TCP window size bug (afflicting IP Filter keep state)
Message-ID:  <200202120120.g1C1K2f36327@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/34801; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: AMAKAWA Shuhei <sa264@cam.ac.uk>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/34801: TCP window size bug (afflicting IP Filter keep state)
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 01:19:00 +0000

 kern/34801 is obviously incorrect.  In fact, RFC 1323 comes into
 play.  The default value of net.inet.tcp.recvspace of 65536 requires
 that the RFC 1323 window scale extention be used.
 
 However, IP Filter apparently doesn't support RFC 1323 extensions
 and takes the window size field literally.  You could blame IP
 Filter for this, but I think lowering the default tcp.recvspace to
 65535 is a reasonable concession to make, to make IP Filter work
 without tweaking anything.  The original aim of raising it to 64K
 must not have been to activate window scaling.  So, please apply the
 patch.

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