Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Tim 'The Unslept' Sailer) | Subject | Re: PPP slow between Linux and Solaris - why is it so? | Date | 16 Jul 1996 15:56:54 GMT |
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Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote: : > 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
sun's ftp:
ftp://sunsolve1.sun.com/pub/netpatches 103447-03 and 103169-06
for 2.5 sparc box
Tim
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