Re: "Greased TCPenguin"

Dancer (dancer@brisnet.org.au)
Fri, 27 Mar 1998 00:49:46 +1000


We see them in bursts. Several seconds apart or several minutes apart,
all within a short space of time. Then none for about 20 minutes, and
then another burst.

And yes, we're heavy SSH users.

D

Samuli Kaski wrote:
>
> On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> > BTW: I'm using CSLIP, not PPP. I don't get any more performance from
> > my serial link than what I did with earlier 2.1.x kernels (the one
> > before the TCP breakage).
>
> If it matters, I run CSLIP too off a 57.6 Kbps ll-link and get those too.
>
> > I got 13 in the space of 50 minutes. All I was doing was reading email
> > (Emacs ViewMail over lbx) and transferred (rcp) two small files (one
> > around 9 kBytes and the other under 1 kByte).
>
> My findings with 2.1 kernels are that the errors are somewhat random
> (not related to load on the link, etc.) so I just put them down to
> "noise" on the 4-wire cable. /var/adm/messages show something like 10-20
> messages/day for 2.1.90
>
> Interesting thing is all the error's have come from ssh-connections,
> none of them have come from, let's say playing q2. Must be a TCP vs. UDP
> issue?
>
> --
> Samuli Kaski, samkaski@cs.helsinki.fi
> Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland.
>
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