OK to answer all the questions:
> (snip)
> > The Sun used a larger window (64K versus 32K).
>
> Check that Networking options ... IP: Allow large windows is enabled in
> your kernel build. This could be related to case 2?
I will check again, but I am sure that it is.
>
> Using a larger receive window on the Linux end could help, anyway. Any
> ideas WHY those packets were dropped, BTW?
Funny thing, I tried changing the window sizes on the sparc to be 32K,
It actually performed worse in general tests with freeBSD and linux.
But I can do some further tests, will let ya know later today.
>
> Case 1 looks likely to entail changing the kernel code, which is more
> involved.
>
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