Re: 2.3.6 TCP stack bug

Borek Lupomesky (Borek.Lupomesky@ujep.cz)
Tue, 22 Jun 1999 21:00:01 +0200 (CEST)


On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, David S. Miller wrote:

> Are you trying to do bulk transfers and "choppy" connections at the
> same time? This is where PPP tends to break down, and one suggested
> workaround is to explicitly set your tx queue length to some small
> value at ifconfig up time (say "4"), this makes congestion control
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I wonder how to do this automatically. You need to wait for pppN
interface to come up and then do the txqueuelen setting which is hardly
elegant.

Bye Borek

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