Re: bizarre network timing problem

From: Felix von Leitner
Date: Thu Oct 18 2007 - 05:42:48 EST


> the packet trace was a bit too cooked perhaps, but there were indications
> that at times the TCP window was going to zero - perhaps something with
> window updates or persist timers?

Does TCP use different window sizes on loopback? Why is this not
happening on ethernet?

How could I test this theory?

My initial idea was that it has something todo with the different MTU on
loopback. My initial block size was 16k, but the problem stayed when I
changed it to 64k.

Felix
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