Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:21:07 -0800 | From | Simon Kirby <> | Subject | Re: 2.4 tcp very slow under certain circumstances (Re: netdev issues (3c905B)) |
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On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 03:52:37PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> There is no reason my patch should have this effect. > > All of this is what appears to be a bug in Windows TCP header > compression, if the ID field of the IPv4 header does not change then > it drops every other packet. > > The change I posted as-is, is unacceptable because it adds unnecessary > cost to a fast path. The final change I actually use will likely > involve using the TCP sequence numbers to calculate an "always > changing" ID number in the IPv4 headers to placate these broken > windows machines.
Has such a patch gone in to the kernel yet?
Simon-
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