Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262475AbVAEPyp (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:54:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262470AbVAEPxo (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:53:44 -0500 Received: from eurogra4543-2.clients.easynet.fr ([212.180.52.86]:14807 "HELO server5.heliogroup.fr") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262475AbVAEPiy (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:38:54 -0500 From: Hubert Tonneau To: Alan Cox Cc: Francois Romieu , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.6.10 TCP troubles Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:14:20 GMT Message-ID: <0508KZW12@server5.heliogroup.fr> X-Mailer: Pliant 93 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 965 Lines: 27 Alan Cox wrote: > > Mail agent comments: > Sending server is suspicious. > > On Mer, 2005-01-05 at 12:50, Hubert Tonneau wrote: > > troubles (probably lost packets on the Mac side because the Linux machine is > > gigabit connected to the switch, with flow control enabled, and the Mac is > > 100 Mbps connected, full duplex, but without flow control). > > Through a firewall ? No: Mac <-> 100 Mbps switch <-> gigabit switch <-> Linux One possible explaination, even if unlikely, might be that Linux 2.6.10 is faster than 2.6.8, so the Mac start missing packets. If you want me to make tests, I can switch back to 2.6.10 at night, perform tests, and switch back to 2.6.8 before production resumes in the morning. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/