On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:55:50PM +0200, Magnus Ekdahl wrote: > Subject: Problems with some firewalls > Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7 > Version: 2.6.8-2 > Severity: normal > > Somewhere after the 18th of august I got problems downloading my mail from > pophost.ludd.luth.se. One of the administrators said that one possible > reason for this is that Linux can't handle that their firewall won't strip > TCP packages initially. As I understand him this should not be specific to > ludd, but should apply to other sites too for newer 2.6 kernels.
Can you check whether an echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_default_win_scale makes the problem go away?