Re: [TCP bug, regression] stuck distcc connections in latest -git

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 02:22:59AM -0700, David Miller wrote:

BTW, if someone can contact the Fedora folks, specifically whoever
added that syncookies enable to /etc/sysctl.conf, and let them know
that they've set our TCP stack back by 10 years by disabling SACK
and timestamps, I'd really appreciate it.

But syn cookies should not trigger unless the syn backlog is full, right ?
Anyway, it would also explain why Ingo's running no default MSS (though
it should be correctly negociated by syn cookies).

willy