Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 09 Jan 2003 08:52:19 +1300 | From | Andrew McGregor <> | Subject | Re: ipv6 stack seems to forget to send ACKs |
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Selective ACK is mandatory in IPv6 and uses a somewhat different algorithm, so you shouldn't be seeing nearly as many ACKs as an IPv4 client would do by default.
Andrew
--On Wednesday, January 08, 2003 18:01:39 +0100 Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> wrote:
> Previously Maciej Soltysiak wrote: >> I seem to be getting better results than you, i think that it is not an >> issue of ipv6 implementation but simply the case of time sensitive >> traffic fighting with other Internet traffic over tunnels through ipv4 >> networks. > > Actually, I don't follow this. How could any kind of traffic shaping > result in my client not sending ACKs, which is what the tcpdump > seems to indicate? I can understand packets being dropped which > would result in retransmits, but that is not the case here. > > Wichert. > > (usual I'm-no-network-guru-and-might-be-misreading-things disclaimer here) > > -- > Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> http://www.wiggy.net/ > A random hacker > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >
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