Re: Poor TCP throughput in 2.1.103

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
24 May 1998 17:26:20 +0200


Shaw Carruthers <shaw@shawc.demon.co.uk> writes:

> On Sun, 24 May 1998 ak@muc.de wrote:
>
> >
> > One thing you could try, maybe it helps: get new net-tools and do
> > (replacing ppp0 with your ppp device)
> >
> > /sbin/ifconfig ppp0 txqueuelen 3
> >
>
> Sorry that doesn't help, as I am still advertising a receive window of
> 16060, which makes the Ascend fire of a string of packets and then stall
> when I don't ack them.

It was not supposed to change the window, it was just a test to see whether
queueing effects on the Linux box cause it.

Seems like the test failed.

-Andi

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