OCD window scaling behavior on local network.

Zaphod Beeblebrox zbeeble at gmail.com
Tue Nov 7 17:05:45 UTC 2017


If you'd like a copy, I'm pretty sure I can provide one.

For context, I found this behaviour because I was tracing a BGP problem
with an exchange's Route Server (which I believe is a cisco
something-or-other).  AFAICT, a software upgrade corrected that problem,
but the strange window behavior remains.

On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Sean Bruno <sbruno at freebsd.org> wrote:

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> On 05/29/17 00:50, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
> > so... I have some really OCD window scaling behavior on a GigE local
> > network.  The protocol is BGP, this is one session recorded.  Nearly
> every
> > payload packet is answered by both an 'ACK' and a 2nd window scaling
> > packet.  I have examined the packet counters: no errors reported by the
> box
> > or the managed switch.  Also, TCP-MD5 is not in use, if that matters.
> >
> > [image: Inline image 1]
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