From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Furniss Subject: Re: Window shrinking (was Linux v2.6.16-rc6) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 00:34:22 +0100 Message-ID: <443D8E7E.4080909@dsl.pipex.com> References: <6bffcb0e0603111751i1ed30794s@mail.gmail.com> <20060311.183904.71244086.davem@davemloft.net> <4438F952.5040802@dsl.pipex.com> <44393AB7.3050506@middle.net> <443A2A46.9050808@dsl.pipex.com> <443A7195.5070406@middle.net> <443AA46C.9080708@dsl.pipex.com> <443ABFE1.6030601@middle.net> <443D7015.7080707@drugphish.ch> Reply-To: andy.furniss@dsl.pipex.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark Butler , "David S. Miller" , michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from blaster.systems.pipex.net ([62.241.163.7]:31637 "EHLO blaster.systems.pipex.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932409AbWDLXdr (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:33:47 -0400 To: Roberto Nibali In-Reply-To: <443D7015.7080707@drugphish.ch> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Roberto Nibali wrote: > > I had the distinct pleasure of partly get involved with debugging > network stalls related to Linux clients (2.6.x kernel) and a Packeteer. Dare I suggest that it could be something as trivial as it looks like window scaling defaults to off on SunOS 2.5.1 and it's on on Linux - maybe packeteer can't handle it properly. Would be an easy test to turn it off on the Suse boxes. Andy.