Re: tcp lossage in 2.1.131

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:22:04 +0000 (GMT)


> A few weeks ago, I reported on some systematic tcp packet corruption (when
> talking to netbsd from a recent linux 2.1.*). I still reliably experience
> this with 2.1.131. I don't experience this from a linux 2.0.* kernel
> on a similar (pentium) platform, nor do I experience this from Solaris.

How do you know ? What tool are you using to verify the checksums, remembering
tcpdump doesnt. It would also be useful to know via a third machine exactly
which network hop the frames changed. Also the media involved in each hop

> [Last time I posted tcpdumps from both ends of a tcp connection, showing
> bad timestamps on the corrupted packets. Should I post that kind of
> thing again? Something else?]

I've still got them, I didnt pay it much attention originally.

Alan

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