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Work around a misconfigured firewall by disabling TCP window scaling and TCP timestamps.
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firewall_timestamp_fix.sh
# http://prowiki.isc.upenn.edu/wiki/TCP_tuning_for_broken_firewalls
echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps
echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling
# or add to sysctl.conf:
# net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=0
# net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps=0
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