[AusNOG] Why not Symmetric ingress and egress?

[craig at askings.com.au]

> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:24 PM,  <craig at askings.com.au> wrote:
> Say again?  Don't you set these things in the TCP stack - i.e., the
> kernel - rather than the application?
>
> e.g., echo 1 > /proc/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling # linux

It was a Windows desktop app. I could prove using scapy that their servers
honored window scaling when it was requested, but for some reason their
app never did.

Craig.