Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:09:13 +0100 | | From | Daniel Drake <> | | Subject | Re: 2.6.17: networking bug?? |
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Mark Lord wrote: > Further to this, the current behaviour is badly unpredictable. > > A machine could be working perfectly, not (noticeably) affected > by this bug. And then the user adds another stick of RAM to it.
This "bug" already existed in 2.6.16 to a certain extent: you were losing out on a lot of TCP performance. Go back to 2.6.7, measure TCP performance, and you'll probably find it was significantly better.
Also, there aren't that many broken end-points out there. www.everymac.com loads fine for me and does not ignore the window scale factor.
The problem in your case is a broken router in the middle. I had the same problem: certain sites would not load, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with the servers that run these sites:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=114478312100641&w=2
I contacted my ISP and informed them of the issue. They fixed it nationwide within a few weeks. You might try confirming that your problem only applies to HTTP like mine did (ISP runs some lame transparent webcaches), and it was a bug in the software there (NetApp).
We already had the "some routers are broken, should we do anything" discussion back at the time of 2.6.8: http://lwn.net/Articles/92727/
Daniel
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