How do you recomend that I test This?
On Thu, 4 May 2000, James Sutherland wrote:
> On Thu, 4 May 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > > The Sun used a larger window (64K versus 32K).
> > >
> > > Check that Networking options ... IP: Allow large windows is enabled in
> > > your kernel build. This could be related to case 2?
> >
> > We will only offer 32K windows if the box the other end offers no window
> > scaling either way. This is because we care about interworking with old
> > equipment with sign handling bugs.
>
> These Sun boxes certainly shouldn't fall into that category, though,
> surely!
>
> > Turning on large window support gives a bigger window but while that
> > reduces the number of zero window stalls it doesnt change total throughput
>
> Unless the zero window stalls are causing the throughput bottleneck...
>
> > > Using a larger receive window on the Linux end could help, anyway. Any
> > > ideas WHY those packets were dropped, BTW?
> >
> > This is the important one I think
>
> Yes... Could the two issues be related? (i.e. window problems causing
> occasional dropped packets?)
>
>
> James.
>
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