Re: [SQU] Squid is slower than MS Proxy!!!

In article >Pine.BSI.4.10.10008131533460.8318-100000@c1111.nl.compuware.com>,
Bert Driehuis <bert_driehuis@nl.compuware.com> wrote:
>Incidentally, seeing that you're running NT and Linux side by side, you
>might be an NT shop that is trying out Linux. In that situation, I see a
>lot of people making mistakes in their DNS configuration. You wouldn't
>happen to run you DNS server on NT, would you?

And ofcourse, if you have Linux boxes talking to win95/win98 you
want to turn off selected TCP extensions that Linux has but that
confuse win95/win98. Note that this is a bug in the windows TCP
stack, but there's no way to fix windows ofcourse ...

# Measures to make sure Windows boxes get some throughput
# RFC 1323 "TCP Extensions for High Performance"
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps
# RFC 2018 "TCP Selective Acknowledgement Options"
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_sack

Mike.

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