From: "Geo" 

"Mike N."  wrote in message
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>
>    This is quite likely - Packeteer for example did not add support to
> their system for Window Scaling until 2000 (version 4.1), despite Window
> Scaling having been in the RFC's since 1992.

Running version 4.1.3

>   The symptoms we see fit the scenario where the Linux end uses a Window
> Scale of 7, but something converts it to 0 or 1 before it reaches the
other
> end.   Linux starts the connection by advertising a small buffer size
> (something like 5K).   If the other end doesn't have the scaling factor of
> 2^7(128) to apply, it only sees a window buffer size of 46 bytes.   This
> leaves a  payload of 1 byte which would explain the switch to 1-byte
> packets.

Hmmm. there is no way I can setup the server so it doesn't go thru the
packetshaper. However I've disabled window scaling on the server so we'll
see if that has any effect. Still wondering why the rwin change would have
made any difference at all though.

Geo.

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