[mythtv-users] Zap2it - What's going on

[David Rees]

On 9/7/06, Valerian Mayega <valerian at gmail.com> wrote:
> What does the command below do?

Some broken transparent proxies are broken in that they don't properly
handle TCP window scaling.

TCP window scaling is a TCP feature which is often required to get
respectible bandwidth on high latency high bandwidth links.

What happens is if you have a broken transparent proxy in the middle,
each side of the TCP connection thinks it was a different window size
and the result is a very slow or broken connection.

See this link for more details: http://lwn.net/Articles/92727/

-Dave