Re: Massive TCPv4 bad checksum

H.J. Lu (hjl@lucon.org)
Sun, 18 Oct 1998 11:18:17 -0700 (PDT)

> >>
>
> > I can tell my SLIP speed is slower than 2.0 and there are quite
> > some corrupted packets come over SLIP link.
>
> Some broken modem server have buggy VJ compression functions that can't
> cope with the new RFC1323/SACK TCP options Linux 2.1 sends. Try turning
> them off with
>
> echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_sack
> echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps
> echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling
>
> Will only take effect for new TCP connections afterward.
>

I tried that. I still got back TCP checksum. But the speed
seems faster than before. BTW, the other side of my SLIP
link is runnings Linux 2.1.102 with Cyclades card and some
modems. Should they also turn off the new RFC1323/SACK TCP
options?

-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)


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