From: John Beckett 

Mike N.  wrote in message
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>   I tried turning off TCP/IP Window Scaling on Linux.   PRESTO - it worked!

Note to Geo:

Your Windows 2000(?) box does seem to have some weird problem. It looks
like there might be a bug where it gets confused by the TCP window scaling
option. Maybe you should disable it.

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
Tcp1323Opts : DWORD : 0 (disable timestamps and window scaling)

(1323 = RFC 1323 options)

One day (when I have finished sorting my sock drawer), I will put
a W2000 and a Linux box on each side of a router, then investigate this
issue some more. At the moment, it looks like a W2000 bug to me.

John

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