From: Mike N. 

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:23:43 +1000, John Beckett
 wrote:

>However, I can't find any explanations.

   Excellent writeup!   There's a bunch to digest.

>Mike is using a NAT router. I wonder if it is somehow interfering with the
>TCP parameters.

   I wondered about this too, and did a packet capture from another server
on the internet.  The TCP options *appear* to pass through to the other end
unchanged.

>It would be very interesting for Mike and Geo to arrange a particular time
>when Geo would capture traffic at the server, and Mike would do likewise
>at the client. Geo could apply a filter to save just the packets to/from
>Mike's system. Then we could compare what is seen at the two computers.

   Geo - if you find time to install the Net Monitor, let me know what
times work best and we'll try to set a time to capture.

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