From: John Beckett 

"Geo"  wrote in message
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> I think I'll hold off till we find out which side (a connection takes two
> machines) had the bug since it doesn't affect windows users.

Yes - wait. My suggestion was expressed a little more dogmatically than I
intended. What I'm saying is that inspection of Mike's capture indicates a
problem which does not seem to be at the Linux end.

It may turn out that W2000/SP4 is confused by the window scaling = 7 option
used by default on Mike's Linux box. If that is true, then there should be
a LOT of unhappy Linux people who get frustratingly slow access via TCP
(nntp, http and maybe more).

Or, maybe some NAT box or router is re-writing fields in the packets and
that is causing confusion. It would be worth investigating.

John

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