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From: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
To: Ben McKeegan <ben@netservers.co.uk>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] fix packet loss and massive ping spikes with PPP multi-link
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 13:28:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinpsIs7qMSpQ78fWCTHh03iLBIwRlsU7sqJau08@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C04ECA3.1080905@netservers.co.uk>

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 13:18, Ben McKeegan <ben@netservers.co.uk> wrote:

> This isn't really a bug fix.  Its a behavioural change to work around poor
> quality/mismatched underlying PPP channels.

Maybe not a bug in the Linux kernel itself, but certainly in the real world
that exists around Linux. Similar to how a change to a device driver that
is needed to work around broken hardware is a bug fix, imo.


RIchard

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-01 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-26 15:50 [Patch] fix packet loss and massive ping spikes with PPP multi-link Richard Hartmann
2010-03-26 16:02 ` Alan Cox
2010-03-26 16:33   ` Joe Perches
2010-03-26 16:39   ` Richard Hartmann
2010-03-26 16:59     ` David Miller
2010-03-26 17:04       ` David Miller
2010-03-26 17:04     ` James Carlson
2010-03-26 17:00   ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2010-03-26 17:04     ` Alan Cox
2010-03-31 10:03       ` Ben McKeegan
2010-05-29  2:16         ` Paul Mackerras
2010-05-29  9:06           ` Richard Hartmann
2010-05-31 13:39           ` Richard Hartmann
2010-05-31 16:20           ` Ben McKeegan
2010-06-02 14:55             ` Ben McKeegan
2010-06-02 15:04               ` [PATCH] ppp_generic: fix multilink fragment sizes Ben McKeegan
2010-06-02 15:17                 ` Paoloni, Gabriele
2010-06-02 15:31                   ` David Miller
2010-06-02 15:55                   ` Ben McKeegan
2010-06-03  8:41                     ` Paoloni, Gabriele
2010-06-03  9:14                       ` Ben McKeegan
2010-11-08 14:05               ` [Patch] fix packet loss and massive ping spikes with PPP multi-link Richard Hartmann
2010-11-15 12:07                 ` Richard Hartmann
2010-06-01 10:20           ` Richard Hartmann
2010-06-01 11:18             ` Ben McKeegan
2010-06-01 11:28               ` Richard Hartmann [this message]
2010-06-01 22:15                 ` David Miller
2010-03-31  9:01 ` Richard Hartmann
2010-05-25  9:52 ` Richard Hartmann
     [not found]   ` <4BFBA3F2.2000301@bfs.de>
     [not found]     ` <AANLkTilnueP5HIfX03soMCYE93jubL000rpiOCN1xB2-@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]       ` <4BFC0942.2030103@bfs.de>
2010-05-26  8:47         ` Richard Hartmann
2010-05-28  7:28           ` walter harms

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