From 15d99e02babae8bc20b836917ace07d93e318149 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rick Jones Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:40:29 -0800 Subject: [TCP]: sysctl to allow TCP window > 32767 sans wscale Back in the dark ages, we had to be conservative and only allow 15-bit window fields if the window scale option was not negotiated. Some ancient stacks used a signed 16-bit quantity for the window field of the TCP header and would get confused. Those days are long gone, so we can use the full 16-bits by default now. There is a sysctl added so that we can still interact with such old stacks Signed-off-by: Rick Jones Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 651298ba019..f12007b80a4 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -355,6 +355,13 @@ somaxconn - INTEGER Defaults to 128. See also tcp_max_syn_backlog for additional tuning for TCP sockets. +tcp_workaround_signed_windows - BOOLEAN + If set, assume no receipt of a window scaling option means the + remote TCP is broken and treats the window as a signed quantity. + If unset, assume the remote TCP is not broken even if we do + not receive a window scaling option from them. + Default: 0 + IP Variables: ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS -- cgit v1.2.3