[plug] Strange TCP problem talking to Westnet pop3

[J Michael Gilks]

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 04:15 pm, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Carl Gherardi wrote:
> > Sounds like the tcp window scaling problem reported a while ago
> >
> > http://lwn.net/Articles/92727/ - explains it pretty well.
>
> Yup, disabling that fixed it, cheers!
>
> For the archives (and others affected by this problem), the solution
> is to put this line into /etc/sysctl.conf :
>
>     net.ipv4.tcp_default_win_scale=0
>
> Then run `sysctl -p`.
>
Done and done.
Thanks for that. Seems to have fixed the problem.
I wouldn't even know where to start looking for a solution like that.

Love
Mike.