Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: PPP slow between Linux and Solaris - why is it so? | Date | Sun, 14 Jul 1996 17:16:22 +0100 (BST) |
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> I remember someone mentioned that Solaris was retransmitting packets too > quickly or something causing >50% of bandwidth to be used up by duplicate > packets. I got the impression that Solaris was to blame. Is this > correct? In any case, I do not remember anyone ever mentioning a fix / > trick / work around to get the throughput back up to what it should be.
We had a mix of Linux problems (fixed for 2.0.x) and some Solaris bugs. Sun engineers posted a summary of the Sun bugs and allegedly a patch is out. It seems however that nobody can get hold of said patch yet.
Alan
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