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Subject: Re: Slow start -- Linux vs. NT -- it's time to acknowledge theproblem!
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"David S. Miller" wrote:
> 
>    From: Jessica Blank <jessica@twu.net>
>    Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 08:35:35 -0600 (CST)
> 
>         It is high time this problem is acknowledged and FIXED. I am
>    forced to share a network with a bunch of NT servers, some of which get
>    plenty of traffic-- enough so that they manage to crowd out my machine to
>    the tune of 600ish ms ping times to the Linux box versus only **70**
>    (!!!!!!) to the Windows box.
 
600ms looks like 10base T (no duplex).
  Not full duplex or 100base T.
Check you cable!

> 
> Changes to TCP and therefore anything having to do with
> slow-start is not going to have any effect on ping times.
> 
> To me this sounds like a problem somewhere else, perhaps a driver
> issue.
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