[TCP]: sysctl to allow TCP window > 32767 sans wscale

Back in the dark ages, we had to be conservative and only allow 15-bit
window fields if the window scale option was not negotiated.  Some
ancient stacks used a signed 16-bit quantity for the window field of
the TCP header and would get confused.

Those days are long gone, so we can use the full 16-bits by default
now.

There is a sysctl added so that we can still interact with such old
stacks

Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Rick Jones
2006-03-20 22:40:29 -08:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent c1b1bce852
commit 15d99e02ba
5 changed files with 34 additions and 7 deletions

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@@ -680,7 +680,14 @@ ctl_table ipv4_table[] = {
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
},
{
.ctl_name = NET_IPV4_TCP_WORKAROUND_SIGNED_WINDOWS,
.procname = "tcp_workaround_signed_windows",
.data = &sysctl_tcp_workaround_signed_windows,
.maxlen = sizeof(int),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = &proc_dointvec
},
{ .ctl_name = 0 }
};