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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 02:57:01 -0800 (PST)
To: ookhoi@dds.nl
Cc: Vibol Hou <vibol@khmer.cc>, Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        sim@stormix.com
Subject: Re: 2.4 tcp very slow under certain circumstances (Re: netdev issues (3c905B))
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Ookhoi writes:
 > We have exactly the same problem but in our case it depends on the
 > following three conditions: 1, kernel 2.4 (2.2 is fine), 2, windows ip
 > header compression turned on, 3, a free internet access provider in
 > Holland called 'Wish' (which seemes to stand for 'I Wish I had a faster
 > connection').
 > If we remove one of the three conditions, the connection is oke. It is
 > only tcp which is affected.
 > A packet on its way from linux server to windows client seems to get
 > dropped once and retransmitted. This makes the connection _very_ slow.

:-( I hate these buggy systems.

Does this patch below fix the performance problem and are the windows
clients win2000 or win95?

--- include/net/ip.h.~1~	Mon Feb 19 00:12:31 2001
+++ include/net/ip.h	Wed Feb 21 02:56:15 2001
@@ -190,9 +190,11 @@
 
 static inline void ip_select_ident(struct iphdr *iph, struct dst_entry *dst)
 {
+#if 0
 	if (iph->frag_off&__constant_htons(IP_DF))
 		iph->id = 0;
 	else
+#endif
 		__ip_select_ident(iph, dst);
 }
 
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