On Dienstag, 12. September 2006 11:49 Jose M. Prieto wrote: > Once the problem arises, it cannot be "reapaired". The problem with window > scaling is that routers that can't handle it drop part of the packets; the > greater the scale factor beeing used, the more packets are dropped. The only > way to recover dropped packets is retranmitting them, which wastes bandwith.
Okay, that makes it a little bit more understandable for me. Will i see this under "errors" in ifconfig on my pc's if it happens? > But this problem doesn't always happen. In fact, it usually doesn't, as most > routers do support window scaling. In my case, it is my own dsl router which > doesn't support scaling, so I faced the problem every time. That's why i switch from my old hardware router to a real linux router but this makes sometimes more work than a dsl router because i start to switch to utf8.-) > No question is stupid. Not asking is what may be stupid. Thanks. See you, Attila _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
