Re: TCP/PPP bug 2.3.5?

Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@sonera.fi)
Sun, 6 Jun 1999 16:57:31 +0300

On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 08:37:03AM -0500, Nate Riffe wrote:
....
> filled to capacity and stays there until the transfer is complete. I
> think this is a network stack problem and not a hardware problem because
> ping -f gets 0% packet loss (one run lost 10 packets out of 60,000). This
> only happens with bulk transfer, interactive sessions are perfectly fine.

"ping -f" uses small frames, try using LARGE frames like
bulk TCP datastream does.

ping -f -s 1480 dest.host

what happens ?

Very likely you have hardware problems at the cabeling,
or at the network switch.

> -Nate
> Nate Riffe Duct tape by any other name is just as
> inkblot@geocities.com sticky.

/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi>

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