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SubjectRe: TCP bad checksums
Hmm, maybe the folks experiencing this kind of problems should try 
to compile their kernel as SMP vs. UP.

Thomas

> There's not only one way to lose interrupts. I was losing them on
my
> IDE interface when I upgraded to a fast disk on my slow 486/33
> machine. I had slews of checksum errors until I finally figured out
> why it was happening, tried "hdparm -u1" to enable interrupts during
> IDE transfers, and watched my checksum errors disappear.
>
> The only reason I suggested the SCSI interface as the culprit is
> because it underwent exactly the right kind of modification around the
> time Peter was talking about.
>
> Of course, it's possible that *other* parts of the kernel underwent
> changes that increased interrupt latency.
>


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