Re: Excessive TCP retransmits over lossless, high latency link

From: Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Date: Sat Sep 01 2001 - 16:45:29 EST


Lukas Beeler <lukas.beeler@projectdream.org> 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

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