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Re:Reinventing the Network Stack for Compute-Intensive Appli... by tyingq on Monday September 30, 2019 @08:55PM (#21121050)
Perhaps to avoid support tickets for people with equipment that doesn't properly support window scaling. The 64k setting is as high as you can go and avoid that.
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Re:Reinventing the Network Stack for Compute-Intensive Appli... by jiggawatts on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @09:55AM (#21125338)
What planet are you from where there is still such as unique and special flower that talks to only NetApp and no other operating system made in the last twenty years?
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Re:Reinventing the Network Stack for Compute-Intensive Appli... by tyingq on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @11:33AM (#21126507)
The planet where cheap or old or buggy routers, VPN software, etc don't properly support tcp window scaling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_window_scale_option

I didn't say anything like what you're describing. Also not a fan of your unnecessary cheap shot.

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