[Nanog] Bandwidth issues in the Sprint network

[kris at fisix.net (FISIX)]

Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Lincoln Dale <ltd at interlink.com.au> said:
>   
>> even with tuned TCP window sizes, make sure you don't have TCP syncookies
>> enabled on either endpoint.
>>     
>
> IIRC Linux (at least) syncookies only come into play when you are being
> syn-flooded (i.e. when the kernel has to start dropping syns).  Having
> them enabled at other times has no impact, so there's rarely (if ever) a
> reason to disable them.
>
>   
whats up with sprint today?

http://www.internetpulse.net/

seems like they keep having issues.