From: Mike N. 

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:53:13 -0700, Randall Parker

wrote:

>>
>>    A close inspection of the packet streams in Wireshark shows that Linux
>> appends 12 bytes of TCP packet "options".   I'll have to
research this
>> further.   Perhaps Windows cannot deal properly with this field.   Or maybe
>> 'Windows isn't done until Linux won't run".
>
>Any way to turn off those options?

   echo -n 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps

   It has no effect on this problem.  They do make bigger packets by 12
bytes, but only for the ACKs which should have no impact on download speed.
In addition, the self-tuning TCPIP algorithms won't have as much
information to work from.

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