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Re: Linux TCP/IP wedges talking to DG AViiON
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kris Karas)
Wed Jun 5 19:50:37 1996
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 18:53:06 -0400
From: Kris Karas <ktk@bih.harvard.edu>
To: mike@toaster.roan.co.uk
CC: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
mike@toaster.roan.co.uk wrote:
> >I think you need to refer that tcpdump to AViiON.
> This looks suspiciously like the sort of behaviour I've seen talking
> to a SCO OS5 machine. How difficult would it be to put a kludge around
> in the Linux code?
Additionally, I can see it causing performance problems sending packets
over a slow serial link, if an entire 1K+ byte packet gets sent just for
the purpose of the few new bytes made available when the window opens
up. Alan confirmed my suggestion of hacking somewhere around
tcp_write_wakeup() to sock_mwalloc a new packet, create a new checksum
for it, then add it to the transmit queue. I wouldn't trust myself to
do it, as I've never actually hacked the network driver under Linux.
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