TCP options order changed in FreeBSD 7, incompatible with some routers

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Anders Nordby wrote:

Hi,

> I had the same problem, and temporarily worked around it by disabling
> SACK:
>
> sysctl net.inet.tcp.sack.enable=0
>
> Which solved my problems. It would be interesting to see if this helps
> you also?

This will hide any of the real problems in most cases, not fix them.


> If so, it seems this issue is related to SACK and TCP order maybe? Hmm.

So you hadn't been following the threads here the last 6 weeks?

7-STABLE already has patches. See my other mails in here....

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                 bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT
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