Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 06 Nov 2000 23:32:42 -0800 | From | Jordan Mendelson <> | Subject | Re: Poor TCP Performance 2.4.0-10 <-> Win98 SE PPP |
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"David S. Miller" wrote: > > Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 23:16:21 -0800 > From: Jordan Mendelson <jordy@napster.com> > > "David S. Miller" wrote: > > It is clear though, that something is messing with or corrupting the > > packets. One thing you might try is turning off TCP header > > compression for the PPP link, does this make a difference? > > Actually, there has been several reports that turning header > compression does help. > > If this is what is causing the TCP sequence numbers to change > then either Win98's or Earthlink terminal server's implementation > of TCP header compression is buggy. > > Assuming this is true, it explains why Win98's TCP does not "see" the > data sent by Linux, because such a bug would make the TCP checksum of > these packets incorrect and thus dropped by Win98's TCP.
Ok, but why doesn't 2.2.16 exhibit this behavior?
We've had reports from quite a number of people complaining about this and I'm fairly certain not all of them are from Earthlink.
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