Re: TCP bug? hanging outgoing connections in 2.2.14

[Linus Torvalds]

In article <[e-mail]>, Andi Kleen  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>Linux's small window handling in TCP could be certainly improved, although
>using a 4096 window on the internet looks rather bogus too.

Small windows are (or at least were) pretty common on specialized
hardware with no real full TCP/IP stack.  There was one early HP printer
that had a very stupid TCP stack, and I think it hardcoded its window to
something like a kilobyte or two. 

I wouldn't be surprised if the same was true on some of the embedded
stuff. Think cell-phones that can do POP3. Maybe not today, but never
dismiss the lure of the internet and the stupidity of devices ;)

			Linus