The why is not your concern, and your position on OUR realities is unappreciated.
The buffers will be large again very soon. >Is there another reason for this change? It seems counter-intuitive to >avoid improving/changing something just because an OS fingerprinting >firewall will no longer recognise it. > >As is, other operating systems couldn't care less about the OS >fingerprinting firewalls; they'll change things in their network stack >as they see fit. > >On Sat, 3 Sep 2016 11:39:51 -0600 (MDT) >Alexander Bluhm <[email protected]> wrote: > >> CVSROOT: /cvs >> Module name: src >> Changes by: [email protected] 2016/09/03 11:39:51 >> >> Modified files: >> sys/sys : socketvar.h >> >> Log message: >> Switch back to 256 KB socket buffer size for TCP. With 2 MB the >> OS finger printing of pf will no longer recognize OpenBSD as the >> window scaling factor has changed. We have to wait until firewalls >> have been updated. >> Requested by deraadt@
