From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 17:45:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 17:45:29 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:51725 "HELO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 17:45:17 -0400 To: Lukas Beeler Cc: davem@redhat.com, ak@muc.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: Excessive TCP retransmits over lossless, high latency link In-Reply-To: <20010901195532.B2714@thefinal.cern.ch.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <200109011920.XAA20031@ms2.inr.ac.ru.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20010901210212.A3361@thefinal.cern.ch.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20010901223918.A4053@mail.projectdream.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel> From: Andi Kleen Date: 01 Sep 2001 23:45:29 +0200 In-Reply-To: Lukas Beeler's message of "1 Sep 2001 22:42:42 +0200" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Lukas Beeler writes: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 09:02:12PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > > If someone would like to do an OS type probe on sdps.demon.co.uk, we > > will know which OS should be avoided for this kind of connection ;-) > > > > it's running solaris 2.5 or 2.5.1 Early unpatched Solaris 2.5 has known problems with its rtt algorithm on low bandwidth links. -Andi