Re: Lost TCP retransmission timer

Val Henson
2001-08-30T22:11:47Z

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 02:56:09PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> BTW, you mentioned that you are seeing this on PPC, do you have any
> way to verify if the bug can be triggered on any other platform?

I'm currently away from my x86 workstation, but I can try it this
weekend.

The requirements for triggering this are:

2.4.6 or higher kernel
2.4.6 machine pushes lots of data on _first_ TCP connection after boot
Lots of packets from 2.4.6 machine are dropped (I'm using 10 Mb hub)

-VAL