Messages in this thread | | | From | (Peter Benie) | Subject | Re: Linux TCP Fixing everyones problems? | Date | Fri, 16 Apr 1999 11:42:44 +0100 |
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alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk writes ("Re: Linux TCP Fixing everyones problems?"): > > True. but perhaps we can embarrass these people into fixing *their* bugs > by logging such buggy interactions via the system's logs. Something like > printk("Barf! host a.b.c.d <insert your most hated operating system here> > sending broken packets"). If enough people notice the complaints in the > system logs, and scream... well... one can only live in hope. 8)
Unless you want a stream of 'I upgrade to linux version 2.2.whatever and now I get these messages - what am I doing wrong?' queries, this is a really bad idea. It also reports the problem where it is least likely to be acted upon, and once the vendor had fixed their TCP implementation, the fix would have to deployed on all broken machines.
This whole thread is a lot of fuss over nothing. The latency in Linux's IP implementation is orders of magnitude larger than the time wasted by the TCP workarounds (especially true for SMP machines), and with many network services (eg. the WWW), you don't get to choose the TCP implementation used on the server anyway - you have to interoperate well with all of them.
Peter
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