Message-Id: <200011070935.KAA03412@cave.bitwizard.nl>
Subject: Re: Poor TCP Performance 2.4.0-10 <-> Win98 SE PPP
In-Reply-To: <200011070533.VAA02179@pizda.ninka.net> from "David S. Miller" at
 "Nov 6, 2000 09:33:25 pm"
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 10:35:21 +0100 (MET)
CC: jordy@napster.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
From: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff)
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David S. Miller wrote:
> Linux resends 21:557, Windows95 (finally) acknowledges it.
> 
> Looking at the equivalent 220 traces, the only difference appears to
> be that the packets are not getting dropped.

This smells of "wrong checksums getting generated", in my opinion. 

(This is not my field of expertise. I'll keep my trap shut from now
on, OK?)

		Roger. 

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